Conquerors
How Portugal Forged the First Global Impire
An epic tale of navigation, trade, technology, money, religion, diplomacy, espionage and shipwrecks, charting how Portugal set about exploring and conquering the world in the 16th century.<BR>
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An epic tale of navigation, trade, technology, money, religion, diplomacy, espionage and shipwrecks, charting how Portugal set about exploring and conquering the world in the 16th century.<BR>
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How Portugal Forged the First Global Impire
H | B | T | Gramm
126 mm | 197 mm | 31 mm | 306 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2016
FSK
0
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Faber and Faber
ISBN-10
0571290906
ISBN-13
9780571290901
Autor
Roger Crowley
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
413
Themen
Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Geschichte der Seefahrt, Seestreitkräfte und Kriegsführung, Kolonialismus und Imperialismus, Portugal, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter
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