Based on documents from a long-lost and unexplored colonial archive, Slavery by Any Other Name tells the story of how Portugal privatized part of its empire to the Mozambique Company. In the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the company governed central Mozambique under a…
In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had wanted some form of unity wit…
In this new work, Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil by examining the interplay between events in Iberia and in the overseas empires of Spain and Portugal. Most colonists had wanted some form of unity wit…
Between the 15th & 17th centuries Portugal built an economic & colonial empire that circled the globe. Malyn Newitt looks at how a late medieval society deployed itself as an economic superpower & successfuly resisted all challenges until well into the 1600s.
Between the 15th & 17th centuries Portugal built an economic & colonial empire that circled the globe. Malyn Newitt looks at how a late medieval society deployed itself as an economic superpower & successfuly resisted all challenges until well into the 1600s.