As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

‘The sea without end is Portuguese.’ Fernando Pessoa In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India. This feat came off the back of sixty years of coherent effort by the Portuguese to find a way out of the Atlantic Ocean. Then they set about conquering the world. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the...(展开全部)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

[ 英] 布赖恩·莱弗里（ Brian Lavery ）,享誉盛名的海洋历史学家，英国国家海事博物馆名誉馆长。 布赖恩·莱弗里就读于爱丁堡大学，他不到 30 岁开始写作，至今著有 30多部海洋史著作。他曾担任英国广播电台历史最悠久的“时代瞭望”节目（ BBC ：Timewatch ），以及热播纪录片“海洋帝国”系列（ BBC ：Empire of the Seas ）的学术顾问。 布赖恩·莱弗里的代表作有《征服海洋》《航行： 5000 年海洋探险史》《海洋帝国》，其中《海洋帝国》为 BBC 热播同名纪录片的配套作品，荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销榜前列。

[ 英] 布赖恩·莱弗里（ Brian Lavery ）,享誉盛名的海洋历史学家，英国国家海事博物馆名誉馆长。 布赖恩·莱弗里就读于爱丁堡大学，他不到 30 岁开始写作，至今著有 30多部海洋史著作。他曾担任英国广播电台历史最悠久的“时代瞭望”节目（ BBC ：Timewatch ），以及热播纪录片“海洋帝国”系列（ BBC ：Empire of the Seas ）的学术顾问。 布赖恩·莱弗里的代表作有《征服海洋》《航行： 5000 年海洋探险史》《海洋帝国》，其中《海洋帝国》为 BBC 热播同名纪录片的配套作品，荣登《星期日泰晤士报》畅销榜前列。

Empire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India—a period during which Portuguese imperial ambitions were struggling for survival, while the Mughal empire was at the height of its power and influence. Jorge Flores uncovers the tenuous but ingenious apparatuses of intelligence thr...(展开全部)

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

威廉·麦克尼尔（William H. McNeill，1917-2016），美国芝加哥大学历史学荣休教授，当代具有影响力的历史学家，被誉为20世纪60年代之后全球史研究的“关键奠基人”，曾获“伊拉斯谟奖”“美国国家图书奖”“世界史先驱奖”等多项殊荣。一生著作等身，代表作有《西方的兴起：人类共同体的历史》《瘟疫与人：传染病对人类历史的冲击》《竞逐富强：西方军事的现代化历程》等。 任一，宾夕法尼亚大学历史系在读博士，研究方向为中国近现代史、跨国史。曾在《史学集刊》、Frontiers of History in China以及Twentieth-Century China等期刊发表多篇论文。

"The Conquerors" describes the struggle between the Kuomintang and the Communists in the Cantonese revolution of the 1920s. It is both an exciting war story and a gallery of intellectual portraits: a ruthless Bolshevik revolutionary, a disillusioned master of propaganda, a powerful Chinese pacifist, and a young anarchist. Each of these "conquerors" will be crushed by the revolu...(展开全部)