A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire by Anthony R. Disney

His book is sober but engaging, meticulous but well paced, comprehensive but concise: a monument of scholarship and discernment, which everyone interested in the subject will want to hand. Volume I concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, and Volume II traces the history of the. Anthony Disney has scraped the bottom and set the ship to rights. Disney are the main textbooks used for this course. The conquest of Ceuta was facilitated by a major civil war. 'The history of the Portuguese world is barnacled with accretions: traditional errors, apparently ineradicable myths, partisan controversies, irrational passions. The two volumes A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire by A. On 21 August 1415, Ceuta was conquered by Portugal, and the long-lived Portuguese Empire was founded.

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and. Sir John Elliott - Regius Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Oxford Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-400) and index. Up-to-date in its scholarship, lucid and coherent in its exposition, his account, skillfully blending narrative and analysis, will immediately take its place as the essential starting-point for all those interested in the origins and character of the first truly global empire in world history.' 'Anthony Disney has provided in this impressive two-volume survey of the history of Portugal and its overseas empire to the beginning of the nineteenth century a work of synthesis that has long been needed. In fact, this analytical combination of national and imperial dimensions is totally original in the panorama of Portuguese histories where almost all the works available in English tend to concentrate exclusively on overseas expansion.'ĭiogo Ramada Curto - European University Institute, Florence and Universidade Nova de Lisboa

'In response to the global turn in scholarship on colonial and early modern history, this book provides a fresh and much-needed perspective integrating metropolitan and colonial Portuguese histories.

A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire by Anthony R. Disney