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Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley
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Category: History
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set ...Show more
Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley
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Category: History
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottom ...Show more
Spice: The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World by Roger Crowley
41.95 AUD
Category: History
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reac ...Show more
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