Carlos Fiolhais, José Eduardo Franco, José Pedro Paiva

Global History of Portugal

From Pre-History to the Modern World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event, interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (João Luís Cardoso, Carlos Fabião, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Catia Antunes and António Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of encounter and dis-encounter in todays gl

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 172mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781789761030
• ISBN-10: 1789761034
• Artikelnr.: 61674116

Autorenporträt

Carlos Fiolhais is Full Professor of Physics at the University of Coimbra and Historian of Science. José Eduardo Franco is Researcher-Coordinator and Full Professor at Universidade Aberta. José Pedro Paiva is Full Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Coimbra.