History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668

Malyn Newitt is Chales Boxer Professor of History at King's College London. His many publications include The First Portuguese Colonial Empire, A History of Mozambique and East Africa.

• List of Maps  Glossary  Preface  1. The Origins of Portuguese Expansion to 1469  2. Portuguese Expansion 1469-1500  3. Portuguese Expansion in the East and the Atlantic, 1500 to 1515  4. The Great Portuguese Diaspora 1515-1550  5. The Portuguese Empire at its Height 1550-1580  6. Challenge and Response: The Portuguese Empire1580-1620  7. Defeat and Survival 1620-1668  8. Understanding Portuguese Expansion

"Malyn Newitt’s aim simply has been ‘to give a coherent account of a very complex topic for a new generation of students of European overseas expansion’ and ‘to restore a chronological perspective to the story of the empire.’ To do this in less than three hundred pages is no means a task, but the end product lives up to the promise. Anyone familiar with the history of the Portuguese empire should have it on the shelve." --Itinerario