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征服者：葡萄牙帝国的崛起
(english) Roger Crowley
The discovery of a passage around the Horn of Africa to India was a great breakthrough in the history of navigation, but it also heralded a complete disruption of the world order. Over the next century, no European empire was more ambitious than Portugal, and no monarch was more predatory than the Portuguese kings. In the process, they created the first long-range seafaring empire, unleashing the globalizing forces that now shape our world. Through Crowley's pen, the full story of the Portuguese Empire and the human cost of its ambitions is finally told.
The discovery of a passage around the Horn of Africa to India was a great breakthrough in the history of navigation, but it also heralded a complete disruption of the world order. Over the next century, no European empire was more ambitious than Portugal, and no monarch was more predatory than the Portuguese kings. In the process, they created the first long-range seafaring empire, unleashing the globalizing forces that now shape our world. Through Crowley's pen, the full story of the Portuguese Empire and the human cost of its ambitions is finally told.