ABSTRACT
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |32 pages
The Early Discoverers, c. 1415-1497
part |38 pages
Vasco Da Gama, 1497-1524
part |85 pages
From Sea-Power To Empire, 1505-1548
part |85 pages
Judaism, Humanism and The Church
part |38 pages
Art and Literature
part |19 pages
The Decline of Portugal, 1548-1580