TY - BOOK AU - Boxer,C.R. TI - Four centuries of Portuguese expansion, 1415-1825: a succinct survey, SN - 0520014197 AV - JV4211 B69 U1 - 325/.3469/09 19 PY - 1969/// [�1961] CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Portuguese colonies KW - fast KW - Portugal KW - Colonies KW - History KW - Histoire KW - nli N1 - 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 ER -