Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th-17th Centuries)
Following recent historiographical appeals on the need to study knowledge exchanges between European maritime rivals and their impact on overseas expansionist processes, this book makes this study for the Portuguese overseas empire between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. As the first Europe...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
Amsterdam University Press
2024.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 Series
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009835413806719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Maritime History and History of Knowledge for the 16th- Century European History
- 1. The First Global Exchange and Dispute over the Globe : the Portuguese-Spanish Nautical Interchange (1415-1580)
- 2. Unexpected or Predictable Espionage and Diplomacy? Portuguese Nautical Knowledge and the English Voyages to West Africa (1551-59)
- 3. Spying Ambassadors for a French Overseas Empire? Michel de Seure and Jean Nicot's Maritime and Cosmographical Espionage in Portugal (1557-61)
- 4. Mare Clausum and Secret Science : João Pereira Dantas and the Portuguese Strategies to Control French and English Overseas Plans (1557-68)
- 5. A Spy or a Go-between ? Jan Huygen van Linschoten, the Itinerario and the Rise of Dutch Overseas Expansion (1583-1611)
- Conclusion: Five Connected Histories of Knowledge? Portugal, Spain, France, England, the Dutch Republic, and Secrecy Policies
- Illustrations
- Bibliography and Sources
- Index of Names, Places and Subjects
