THE BRINGERS OF WAR: THE PORTUGUESE IN AFRICA DURING THE AGE OF GUNPOWDER AND SAIL FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

摘要

Portugal was the first European nation to establish itself in Africa and the last to leave the continent. People generally know of the voyages of discovery in the late fifteenth century and are aware of the empire's painfully slow demise in the second half of the twentieth century, but what happened between these events is a mystery for most people. Professor Laband has set out to unveil that mystery by describing how the empire was created, developed, and maintained in different parts of Africa.