A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America. Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions of a late medieval society were deployed to aid expansion into Africa and the Atlantic islands, as well as how, through rivalry with Castile, this grew into a worldwide commercial enterprise. Finally, he considers how resilient the Portuguese overseas communities were, surviving wars and natural disasters, and fending off attacks by the more heavily armed English and Dutch invaders until well into the 1600s. Including a detailed bibliography and glossary, A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 is an invaluable textbook for all those studying this fascinating period of European expansion

Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature. A city is hit by an epidemic of 'white blindness.' The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards. Inside, the criminal element among the blind hold the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The developments within this oddly anonymous group -- the first blind man, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears -- are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing. PA parable of loss and disorientation, of man's worst appetites and hopeless weaknesses, Blindness is one of the most challenging, thought-provoking, and ultimately exhilarating novels published in any language in recent years.

生动呈现近500年的历史，讲述海上帝国兴衰，从人种到作物世界的大融合 1 国内第一本完全以海洋为主题，讲述近代世界历史的著作。 2 亚洲视角，颠覆西方中心主义。书中特别强调欧洲航海建立了强权秩序，带来了殖民和伤害。而中国和亚洲，非洲目前的“一带一路”设想就是要恢复印亚的和平往来，矫正500年以来的霸权秩序。 3 除了讲述霸权历史，作者生动地介绍了文化、人种、物产的交流细节，大量图片和故事，使本书可读性很高。 各个文明的扩张和贸易，崛起与衰落，都和对海洋的控制直接相关。可以说，谁主宰了海洋，谁就主宰了世界秩序。 《深蓝帝国》讲述的正是中国、阿拉伯、葡萄牙、西班牙、荷兰、英国如何进行远洋航行、并扩张势力的故事。但作者强调在欧洲海航扩张伴随着极端的暴力和征服，给其他文明带来了深重的灾难。征服海洋不但能够对其他文明取得控制权，同时也客观上促进了人种、物产和文化的空前交流。这是世界历史中极为丰富和引人入胜的细节。 海上霸权时代的遗产，不论好的坏的，我们都必须在深刻的反思中承载。

佛郎机铳的研究，既是《澳门文化丛书：佛郎机铳在中国》重新检视欧人东来史不能够忽视的起点课题，也是了解近500年来中国军事武力兴衰和研究东亚战争形态的首要门径，其重要性自不待言。在世界军事史中，再也找不到像佛郎机铳这样独特而深刻的个案。尤其是数百年间，佛郎机铳长期捍卫数千公里的中华帝国疆土，这样对历史有巨大影响的科技产品，无疑需要引起更多研究者的注意。

This book is a history of firearms across the world from the 1100s up to the 1700s, from their invention in China to the time when European firearms had become clearly superior. It asks why it was the Europeans who perfected firearms when it was the Chinese who had invented them, and answers this question by looking at how firearms were used throughout the world. Early firearms were restricted to infantry and siege warfare, limiting their use outside of Europe and Japan. Steppe and desert nomads imposed a different style of warfare on the Middle East, India, and China - a style with which firearms were incompatible. By the time that better firearms allowed these regions to turn the tables on the nomads, Japan's self-imposed isolation left Europe with no rival in firearms design, production, or use, with consequences that are still with us today.

The word means rebirth, and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance began in northern Italy in the late 14th century and culminated in England in the early 17th century. Emphasis on the dignity of man (though not of woman) and on human potential distinguished the Renaissance from the previous Middle Ages. In poetry and literature, individual thought and action were prevalent, while depictions of the human form became a touchstone of Renaissance art. In science and medicine the macrocosm and microcosm of the human condition inspired remarkable strides in research and discovery, and the Earth itself was explored, situating Europeans within a wider realm of possibilities. Organized thematically, the covers all aspects of life in Renaissance Europe: History; religion; art and visual culture; architecture; literature and language; music; warfare; commerce; exploration and travel; science and medicine; education; daily life.