Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800

Francisco Bethencourt is Charles Boxer Professor, King's College, University of London. He is the author of O Imaginario da Magia and L'inquisition à l'époque moderne: Espagne, Portugal, Italie, XVe-XIXe siècles, and the editor of História da Expansão Portuguesa (with Kirti Chadhuri) and A Memória da Nação (with Diogo Ramda Curto). He has been Director of the National Library of Portugal and the Gulbenkian Foundation Cultural Center in Paris. Diogo Ramada Curto is Vasco da Gama Professor, European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of O Discurso Politico em Portugal, and the editor of The Jesuits as Cultural Intermediaries, La Cartografia Europea tra Primo Rinascimento e fine dell'Illuminismo (with Angelo Cattaneo), O Tempo de Vasco da Gama and A Memória da Nação (with Francisco Bethencourt). He has been a Lecturer, Reader, and Professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and a Visiting Professor at Yale and Brown Universities.

• Preface Norman Fiering; Introduction Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto translated by Neil Safier; Part I. Economics and Society: 1. The economy of the Portuguese Empire Stuart Schwartz; 2. Costs and financial trends in the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1822 Jorge Pedreira; 3. Markets and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean M. N. Pearson; 4. The economic network of Portugal's Atlantic world Luis Felipe de Alencastro translated by Marguerite I. Harrison; 5. The Portuguese in Africa John Thornton; Part II. Politics and Institutions: 6. Patterns of settlement in the Portuguese Empire John Russell-Wood; 7. Political configurations and local powers Francisco Bethencourt; 8. Ecclesiastical structures and religious action Isabel dos Guimarães Sá; Part III. The Cultural World: 9. Encounters, negotiations, and interactions Anthony Disney; 10. Portuguese imperial and colonial culture Diogo Ramada Curto; 11. Language and literature in the Portuguese Empire Luís Moura Sobral; 12. Science and technology in Portuguese navigation: an essay on the idea of experience in the sixteenth century Francisco C. Domingues translated by Neil Safier; Part IV. The Comparative Dimension: 13. Portuguese expansion in a global context Felipe Fernández-Armesto.

"The collection will be of interest to both general readers and students." -Shantha Hariharan, International History of Maritime History