Table of Contents

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 Empire
1580-1620 7. Defeat and Survival 1620-1668 8. Understanding Portuguese Expansion

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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

'A meticulous account ... a volume to look forward to.'- Media Literary Review