Includes bibliographical references (pages 94-96).

Preface -- 1. From the Maghreb to the Moluccas, 1415-1521 -- The Western Rim of Christendom -- The Age of Discovery -- The Voyage of Vasco De Gama -- Portuguese Naval Supremacy in the East -- The Voyage of the Victoria -- The Estado da India -- 2. The Clash of Color, Caste, and Creed in The Sixteenth Century -- Holy Wars in Morocco -- Guinea Gold, Slaves, and Christians -- Peaceful Persuasion in the Congo -- The Mailed Fist in Angola -- Monomotapa and Mocambique -- The Swahili Coast -- Portuguese Missionary Methods in the East -- The Portuguese and the Colour-bar -- 3. The Struggle for Spice, Sugar, Slaves and Souls in the Seventeenth Century -- The Sixty Years' Captivity -- The Dutch Assault in the East and West -- The Battle of the Tongues -- Women in the Portuguese Empire -- Miscegenation in East and West -- Romanists and Calvinists -- The Padroado Real -- Jesuit Missionaries -- Amerindian and Negro Slavery -- Brazilian Beginnings -- 4. The Golden Age of Brazil in the Eighteenth Century -- The Colonization of Brazil -- Portugal's Economic Crisis -- The Gold-Rush in Mina Gerais -- Paulistas and Emboabas -- Expansion in Brazil -- Stagnation in Africa -- Contradiction in the East -- Pombal's Colonial Policy -- The Colonial Clergy -- Towards the Independence of Brazil -- A Tentative Balance-Sheet.