Conquerors how Portugal forged the first global empire
The epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers--a tactical advantage no other country could match. Portugal's discovery of a sea route to India, campaign of imperial conquest...
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New York :
Random House,
[2015]
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue : The prow of Europe
- Part I. Reconnaissance : the route to the Indies
- The India plan
- The race
- Vasco da Gama
- "The Devil take you!"
- The Samudri
- Part II. Monopolies and holy war
- Cabral
- The fate of the Miri
- Fury and vengeance
- Toeholds
- The Kingdom of India
- The great whore of Babylon
- "The terrible"
- Three days at Chaul
- "The wrath of the Franks"
- Diu
- Part III. Conquest: The great Khan of India
- The doors of the Samudri
- "What the Portuguese win they never give up"
- Prisoners of the rain
- The uses of terror
- To the eye of the sun
- The wax bullet
- "All the riches of the world in your hands"
- The last voyage
- Epilogue : "They never stop in one place".
