Название: A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807: The Portuguese Empire (Volume 2)
Автор: A. R. Disney
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052140908X
Год: 2009
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 480
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский
The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe.