History of European Overseas Expansion
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The expanding sugar trade linking Portugal, Brazil, and the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries required enforcement mechanisms to guarantee that overseas agents would act honestly and diligently. While the recent... more
Power Point presentation in support of the Seminar de Historia Global Prof. Dr. Guido Abbattista (Università degli Studi di Trieste https://www.units.it/) Rotte marittime globali. Un geodatabase storico della navigazione globale... more
European exploration of the new world.
Dieses Buch beleuchtet in kompakter und gut lesbarer Form die Wurzeln und den Beginn der maritimen europäischen Expansion. Dabei führt der Weg mitunter weit zurück in das Mittelalter bis zur Herausbildung von elementaren Ideen –... more
Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea reveals the long-hidden story of those who lived in the region before Liberia was created. Here are a few of the inspiring revelations it contains: • The different languages and ethnic groups in... more
This essay focuses on the relations between Italy and China in the early1930s, when Italian Fascism and Chinese Nationalism created a ten-year political and economic cooperation. Today, the historical archives allow a more complete... more
Up until the earlier part of the twentieth century 10th and Page, Starr Hill and Vinegar Hill were a trio of predominantly African-American neighborhoods, located adjacent to each other, between the University of Virginia (UVA) and... more
Estudo sobre a presença portuguesa no vice-reino do Peru, entre 1580 e 1640, com base em fontes documentais de arquivos espanhóis, peruanos, mexicanos e paraguaios, designadamente, processos inquisitoriais, fiscais e judiciais,... more
Este artículo propone analizar las divergencias entre los propósitos y el destino de dos expediciones que, en la segunda mitad de la década de 1520, exploraron el Océano Austral. El piloto mayor Sebastián Caboto (c. 1484-1557), cuyo viaje... more
En este artículo se analiza la conquista normanda de las Islas Canarias a través de la conocida crónica "Le Canarién", prestando especial atención a la descripción de los nativos y a las ilustraciones de las islas que acompañan al códice... more
DR. RAPHAEL PAT AI is a noted anthropologist, Biblical scholar, and author. He taught Hebrew at che Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served as professor of anthropology at Dropsie University and at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and... more
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- by Alexander T H E L I B R A R Y C A T (New Alexandria library of Texas)
- Jewish History, Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mysticism, Mesopotamian religion and mythology, Greek religion and mythology, Religious and cultural influence of Ancient Near East on Greece, History of European Overseas Expansion
A not so well-known case of Portuguese diaspora was the community that lived in the Ethiopian highlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The roots of this group go back to the early 1540s and survived as a distinct community... more
Aveiro e as suas gentes na abertura de Quinhentos. In Atas das 8as Jornadas de História Local e Património Documental de Aveiro. Aveiro e a Expansão Marítima Portuguesa. 1400-1800. Aveiro: Câmara Municipal de Aveiro e Âncora Editora,... more
La búsqueda de los metales preciosos condujo a que los asentamientos se realizaran preferiblemente en las regiones ricas o potencialmente ricas en minas. Ciertas aristas de los efectos que este modo de expansión y esta forma de búsqueda... more
MA Thesis in Maritime History (Faculty of Letters, Lisbon University FLUL, 2014) - revised version The present thesis Shipwrecks of the “Carreira da Índia” (1595-1623) – Sources for the Study in Portuguese Maritime History deals with... more
The conquests of Afonso de Albuquerque from 1507 to 1513 were the starting point of a century-long period of theoretical hegemony of the Portuguese monarchy on the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The Red Sea, however, remained a failed... more
This article analyses French privateering in relation with the carreira da Índia, in the first half of the sixteenth-century. Deriving its argument from a wide array of differing sources, it is shown that Portuguese vessels sailing from... more
El presente trabajo examina la incidencia de una serie de textos fundacionales e imágenes cartográficas en la paulatina identificación de América como cuarta parte del mundo. Para ello, propone diferenciar los primeros intentos por... more
La historiografía ha abordado el naufragio de la fragata Wager como un episodio puntual dentro de la expedición de George Anson al Pací co (1740-1744), sin prestar mayor atención a sus cuatro fuentes. En este artículo identi camos cada... more
From an early stage of carreira da Índia route, slaves embarked in the ships which performed the return voyage. It remains to be determined an exact figure, as well as how often did the slaves went on this voyage. They usually came from... more
The essays in this volume provide a new perspective on the history of convicts and penal colonies. They demonstrate that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were a critical period in the reconfiguration of empires, imperial... more
present study examines with the possible detail a vital aspect of the Iberian King-doms economy at the start of the xvii century: the leasing of royal revenues of the tobacco monopoly in connection with the overseas mercantile activity... more
SCIAMVS: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences, vol. 6, 2005 December, pp. 99-175.
Introduction to the edition of the Seventeenth-Century "Relazione delle Quattro Parti del Mondo" written by mons. Francesco Ingoli (1631) and published in 1999 by Fabio Tosi with the Urbaniana University of Sacred Congregation of... more
Nombre d'auteurs ont remis en cause la manière de l'OMS de conduire la question du SIDA au cours des années 1980 et 1990, sans expliquer de manière substantielle pourquoi l'OMS a été sujette à des erreurs. Nous avons tenté de comprendre... more
La Tesis aborda y analiza el americanismo que se expresa en Chile entre 1861 y 1871. Éste se gesta y desarrolla en el contexto de las relaciones de solidaridad o de indiferencia de parte de la sociedad chilena frente a las acciones de... more
Tendo em vista o expansionismo dos principais reinos ibéricos em fins do século XV, buscamos trazer uma breve análise do conjunto documental conhecido como “bulas papais”. Basicamente,tratam-se de textos... more
Quest'anno si celebra il VII centenario della scoperta delle Canarie, l'arcipelago che rappresentò il " trampolino di lancio " della traversata dell'Atlantico e quindi della scoperta delle Americhe. Quando pensiamo al periodo delle grandi... more
Here are three chapters from the latest proof version of my book "The Company Fortress". Order the book with Leiden University Press (https://www.lup.nl/product/the-company-fortress/) or Chicago University Press... more
This article analyzes the links between the first travel accounts of the New World and the production of cartographic images of America in Guillaume Le Testu's Cosmographie Universelle (1556). Produced in 1556 and dedicated to Admiral of... more
Full text: http://hdl.handle.net/10316/93747 As Santas Casas da Misericórdia portuguesas, instituições laicas, de matriz católica, mas com proteção régia, caracterizaram-se, entre outros aspetos, pela sua importância na configuração das... more
My master's thesis at the University of Haifa, excluding the table of content.