Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first voyage to India ushered in a period of European conquest and empire, and established direct and permanent contact between Europe and the Far East.
Part
1. The Early Discoverers, c. 14151497
1. The Making of Portugal
2.
Prince Henry the Navigator
3. Seamen and Slaves
4. Cão, Dias and Columbus
Part
2. Vasco da Gama, 14971524
5. By Sea to India: The Start
6. By Sea to
India: Rounding the Cape
7. By Sea to India: Civilized Africa
8. By Sea to
India: Calicut
9. Vasco da Gamas Second Voyage
10. Vasco da Gama in
Retirement Part
3. From Sea-Power to Empire, 15051548
11. D. Francisco de
Almeida
12. Albuquerque the Conqueror: Goa and Malacca
13. Albuquerque the
Conqueror: Aden and Ormuz
14. Albuquerque: the Statesman
15. King Manoel the
Fortunate: 14951521
16. D. Vaso da Gama, Viceroy
17. D. João de Castro
18. A
Red Sea Raid
19. The Epos of Diu
20. The Last of the Heroes Part
4. Judaism,
Humanism and the Church
21. The Jews in Portugal
22. At the University of
Paris
23. The Trial of George Buchanan
24. An Act of Faith
25. The Church in
the East
26. Francis Xavier in Goa
27. Xavier Among the Pearl-Fishers
28.
Xavier in the Malay Isles
29. A Pious Pirate
30. The First Mission to Japan
31. The Portuguese in China
32. Xavier: the End Part
5. Art and Literature
33. The Art and Literature of Discovery
34. Camões at Coimbra
35. Camões at
Court
36. Camões in the East
37. Camões: Last Years Part
6. The Decline of
Portugal, 15481580
38. The Last Crusade
39. The Decadence and its Causes
40.
The Fidalguia
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