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Article: Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2008
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Francisco Bethencourt and Diogo Ramada Curto, eds. Portuguese Oceanic Expansion, 1400-1800.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xx + 536 pp. index. illus. map. $90 (cl), $34.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978-0-521-84644-8 (cl), 978-0-521-60891-6 (pbk).
Prepared as part of the commemorations of the 500th anniversary of Vasco da Gama's arrival in India (1498) and Pedro Alvares Cabral's landing in Brazil (1500), this collection of essays provides an excellent overview of the emergence of early modern Europe's first truly global empire. While the chapters convey the remarkable accomplishments of the Portuguese in the period between the conquest of Ceuta (1415) ...