A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire: From Beginnings to 1807 (Volume 2)

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contents for Volume 1......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 15
List of Maps......Page 19
Preface......Page 21
BEGINNINGS: THE CONQUEST OF CEUTA......Page 45
THE ERA OF NEO-RECONQUEST......Page 49
RETREAT AND STALEMATE......Page 54
ECONOMIC COSTS AND BENEFITS......Page 57
THE DISASTER OF AL-KSAR AL-KABIR......Page 60
THE FORTRESSES AFTER AL-KSAR AL-KABIR......Page 64
THE ROLE OF PRINCE HENRIQUE......Page 71
THE HENRICAN VOYAGES......Page 74
COASTS AND RIVERS OF GUINEA......Page 77
CÃO, DIAS AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC......Page 79
LONG-DISTANCE VOYAGING AND NAUTICAL TECHNOLOGY......Page 83
PÊRO DE COVILHÃ AND PRESTER JOHN......Page 86
PROFITS ON THE FRINGES OF THE SAHARA......Page 89
DEALING WITH COMPETITORS......Page 91
CROWN AND LANÇADOS IN UPPER GUINEA......Page 93
PORTUGUESE ORIGINS OF GUINEA-BISSAU......Page 98
THE GOLD OF SÃO JORGE DA MINA......Page 100
BENIN AND THE NIGER DELTA......Page 105
THE KINGDOM OF KONGO......Page 109
THE CONQUEST OF NDONGO......Page 114
EARLY PORTUGUESE SETTLEMENT OF ANGOLA......Page 119
THE ANGOLAN SLAVE TRADE......Page 121
PORTUGUESE BEGINNINGS IN MADEIRA......Page 128
LATER DEVELOPMENT OF MADEIRA: SUGAR, WINE AND OVER-POPULATION......Page 131
DISCOVERING, SETTLING AND DEVELOPING THE AZORES......Page 136
THE AZORES IN THE LATE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES......Page 141
PORTUGAL AND THE CANARIES......Page 143
THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS: DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT AND EARLY GROWTH......Page 145
THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS: THE LATER YEARS......Page 151
SÃO TOMÉ AND PRINCIPE: THE SLAVE ISLANDS......Page 154
THE NEWFOUNDLAND FISHERIES AND THE SOUTH ATLANTIC......Page 159
VASCO DAGAMA’S FIRST VOYAGE TO INDIA......Page 163
GETTING TO KNOW ‘THE OTHER’......Page 166
MANUELINE DREAMING......Page 169
ALBUQUERQUE......Page 173
POST-ALBUQUERQUIAN CONSOLIDATION......Page 178
ESCALATING DIPLOMACY......Page 181
THE ESTADO DA ÍNDIA......Page 189
THE CROWN AND THE PEPPER TRADE......Page 193
TAPPING INTO THE INTER-PORT TRADE......Page 197
THE CARREIRA DA ÍNDIA......Page 201
GOVERNING FROM AFAR......Page 203
LATE RESURGENT EXPANSIONISM......Page 209
LOSSES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 212
INTRODUCING THE PRIVATE TRADER......Page 216
PRIVATE TRADE IN WESTERN MARITIME ASIA......Page 219
PRIVATE TRADE IN EASTERN MARITIME ASIA......Page 226
SOLDIERS-OF-FORTUNE......Page 231
INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS AND SETTLERS......Page 236
MUZUNGOS AND PRAZO-HOLDERS IN MOZAMBIQUE......Page 242
CATHOLICS IN AN ALIEN WORLD......Page 244
EARLY VOYAGES AND THE AGE OF FEITORIAS......Page 248
THE AMERINDIANS AND THEIR CULTURE......Page 251
ESTABLISHING SETTLEMENTS: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS......Page 254
THE DISINTEGRATION OF COASTAL AMERINDIAN SOCIETY......Page 260
THE IMPACT OF THE JESUITS......Page 263
EARLY-SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FOREIGN EUROPEAN INTRUSIONS AND THE DUTCH CONQUEST OF PERNAMBUCO......Page 265
THE RULE OF COUNT JOHAN MAURITS OF NASSAU-SIEGEN......Page 267
THE END OF NETHERLANDS BRAZIL......Page 270
TREES AND TRADERS......Page 276
THE COMING OF SUGAR......Page 279
THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE TO BRAZIL......Page 282
PORTS AND PLANTATIONS; FARMS AND RANCHES......Page 285
PORTUGUESE COLONISTS AND MISCEGENATION......Page 288
EARLY COLONIAL SLAVERY AND SLAVE SOCIETY......Page 291
ESCAPEES, THE FREE POOR AND SOCIAL CONTROL......Page 296
SÃO PAULO AND THE SOUTHERN INTERIOR......Page 298
THE NORTHEASTERN AND NORTHERN INTERIORS......Page 303
POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION: SUGAR, TOBACCO AND CATTLE......Page 307
THE GREAT MINERAL BOOM......Page 311
THE FREE POPULATION OF MINAS GERAIS IN THE AGE OF GOLD......Page 314
SLAVERY IN MINAS GERAIS......Page 318
POMBALINE AND POST-POMBALINE NEO-MERCANTILISM......Page 321
THE ECONOMIC RESURGENCE OF THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 324
EXTENDING THE FRONTIER AND ESTABLISHING BORDERS IN THE NORTH, WEST AND SOUTH......Page 329
INTIMATIONS OF SEPARATION......Page 337
GOA AND ITS EUROPEAN RIVALS......Page 343
PORTUGUESE, OMANIS AND MARATHAS......Page 345
OLD AND NEW PATTERNS IN THE INTERCONTINENTAL TRADE......Page 349
THE LATE COLONIAL INTER-PORT TRADE......Page 354
THE ESTADO DA ÍNDIA’S STRUGGLE FOR RECOVERY IN THE LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY......Page 358
CONSERVATISM AND STAGNATION IN THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 361
MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REVIVAL AND EXPANSION......Page 363
GOA AND THE REFORMS OF POMBAL......Page 366
THE PINTO ‘CONSPIRACY’......Page 371
THE BRITISH OCCUPATION OF GOA......Page 374
MACAU AND ITS TRADE: FROM CRISIS TO RECOVERY......Page 376
MACANESE TRADE IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY......Page 379
A GLIMPSE OF MACANESE SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT......Page 381
MACAU AND THE MANDARINS OF GUANGZHOU......Page 383
MACAU’S RELATIONS WITH BEIJING......Page 386
THE MACAU CÂMARA AND THE CROWN AUTHORITIES......Page 389
TOEHOLD IN TIMOR......Page 391
THE LOSS OF THE SWAHILI COAST......Page 394
THE IVORY, GOLD AND SLAVE TRADES OF MOZAMBIQUE......Page 395
ENTER THE BANIAS......Page 397
MOZAMBIQUE: A TERRITORIAL EMPIRE IN THE MAKING?......Page 399
THE MOZAMBIQUE PRAZOS AFTER 1650......Page 402
MOZAMBIQUE AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY REFORMS......Page 407
Glossary......Page 412
Printed Sources......Page 421
Index......Page 445