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The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415-1825

C.R. Boxer

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Categories: Portuguese
Imprint: Aspects of Portugal
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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  • First published in 1969, this volume (a unique masterpiece, the culmination of a monumental career of scholarship in Portuguese studies) analyses the challenges that the Portuguese, creating and sustaining a seaborne empire on three continents for four centuries, were the first to encounter.
    Charles Boxer was born in 1904. He was commissioned into the Lincolnshire regiment in 1923, serving until 1947 when he retired as a Major. He then became Camões Professor of Portuguese at London University (1947-51, 1953-67), Professor of the History of the Far East at the School of Oriental and African ... read more
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