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The Portuguese Pioneers
About This Book
The Pioneer Histories are intended to provide a broad survey of the great migrations of European people for purposes of trade, conquest and settlement into the non-European continents. They aim to describe a racial expansion which has created the complex world of today, so nationalistic in its instincts, so internationalised in its relationships. International affairs now claim the attention of every intelligent citizen, and problems of world-wide extent affect the security and livelihood of us all. He who would grasp their meaning and form sound judgements must look into the past for the foundations of the present, and, abandoning a local for a universal perspective, must take for his study the history of a world invaded by European ideas. It was less so in the days before the Great War. Then the emphasis was upon Europe itself: upon such questions as that of Frances eastern frontier inherited from Richelieu and Louis XIV, the militarism of Germany derived from Frederick the Great, and the Balkan entanglement which originated with the medieval migrations of Slavonic peoples and with the Turkish conquests of the fourteenth century. Now the prospect is wider, for these ancient domestic difficulties in modern form cannot properly be estimated except by correlation with the problems of a Europeanised outer world.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Editorsâ Preface to the Series
- Introduction
- Contents
- Maps
- I. The Royal and Merchant Navy, and Early Voyages
- II. The Expedition to Ceuta. The Aims of Henry the Navigator
- III. Madeira, the Canaries and the Azores
- IV. From Bojador to Cape Verde
- V. Voyages from 1445 to 1448
- VI. First Voyage of Alvise da Cadamosto
- VII. Second Voyage of Cadamosto. Diogo Gomes and Antonio da Noli. Discovery of the Cape Verde Islands
- VIII. Life at Ceuta. The Conquest of Alcacer. Henryâs Death and Character
- IX. The Twenty Years after Prince Henryâs Death
- X. Progress under John II. The Voyages of Diogo CĂŁo. The Search for Prester John. The Voyage of Bartholomew Dias
- XI. Westward Exploration
- XII. The First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
- XIII. North America, Brazil and the Orient
- XIV. Navigation, Cartography, Ships and Seamen
- Index