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| Contents for Volume I | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| List of maps | |
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| Preface | |
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| Maps | |
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| North Africa | |
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| Beginnings: the conquest of Ceuta | |
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| The era of neo-Reconquest | |
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| Retreat and stalemate | |
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| Economic costs and benefits | |
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| The disaster of Al-Ksar al-Kabir | |
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| The fortresses after Al-Ksar al-Kabir | |
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| Exploring the Coasts of Atlantic Africa | |
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| The role of Prince Henrique | |
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| The Henrican voyages | |
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| Coasts and rivers of Guinea | |
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| C�o, Dias and the South Atlantic | |
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| Long-distance voyaging and nautical technology | |
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| P�ro de Covilh� and Prester John | |
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| Engaging with Atlantic Africa | |
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| Profits on the fringes of the Sahara | |
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| Dealing with competitors | |
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| Crown and lan�ados in Upper Guinea | |
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| Portuguese origins of Guinea-Bissau | |
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| The gold of S�o Jorge da Mina | |
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| Benin and the Niger delta | |
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| The kingdom of Kongo | |
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| The conquest of Ndongo | |
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| Early Portuguese settlement of Angola | |
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| The Angolan slave trade | |
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| The Atlantic Islands and Fisheries | |
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| Portuguese beginnings in Madeira | |
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| Later development of Madeira: sugar, wine and over-population | |
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| Discovering, settling and developing the Azores | |
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| The Azores in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries | |
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| Portugal and the Canaries | |
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| The Cape Verde Islands: discovery, settlement and early growth | |
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| The Cape Verde Islands: the later years | |
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| S�o Tom� and Principe: the slave islands | |
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| The Newfoundland fisheries and the South Atlantic | |
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| Breakthrough to Maritime Asia | |
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| Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India | |
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| Getting to know 'the other' | |
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| Manueline dreaming | |
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| Albuquerque | |
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| Post-Albuquerquian consolidation | |
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| Escalating diplomacy | |
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| Empire in the East | |
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| The Estado da �ndia | |
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| The crown and the pepper trade | |
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| Tapping into the inter-port trade | |
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| The carreira da �ndia | |
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| Governing from afar | |
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| Late resurgent expansionism | |
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| Losses in the seventeenth century | |
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| Informal Presence in the East | |
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| Introducing the private trader | |
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| Private trade in western maritime Asia | |
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| Private trade in eastern maritime Asia | |
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| Soldiers-of-fortune | |
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| Informal settlements and settlers | |
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| Muzungos and prazo-holders in Mozambique | |
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| Catholics in an alien world | |
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| Brazil: Seizing and Keeping Possession | |
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| Early voyages and the age of feitorias | |
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| The Amerindians and their culture | |
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| Establishing settlements: the first hundred years | |
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| The disintegration of coastal Amerindian society | |
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| The impact of the Jesuits | |
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| Early-seventeenth-century foreign European intrusions and the Dutch conquest of Pernambuco | |
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| The rule of Count Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen | |
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| The end of Netherlands Brazil | |
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| Formation of Colonial Brazil | |
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| Trees and traders | |
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| The coming of sugar | |
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| The African slave trade to Brazil | |
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| Ports and plantations; farms and ranches | |
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| Portuguese colonists and miscegenation | |
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| Early colonial slavery and slave society | |
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| Escapees, the free poor and social control | |
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| S�o Paulo and the southern interior | |
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| The northeastern and northern interiors | |
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| Late Colonial Brazil | |
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| Post-war reconstruction: sugar, tobacco and cattle | |
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| The great mineral boom | |
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| The free population of Minas Gerais in the age of gold | |
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| Slavery in Minas Gerais | |
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| Pombaline and post-Pombaline neo-mercantilism | |
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| The economic resurgence of the late eighteenth century | |
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| Extending the frontier and establishing borders in the north, west and south | |
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| Intimations of separation | |
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| Holding on in India: The Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| Goa and its European rivals | |
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| Portuguese, Omanis and Marathas | |
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| Old and new patterns in the intercontinental trade | |
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| The late colonial inter-port trade | |
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| The Estado da �ndia's struggle for recovery in the late seventeenth century | |
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| Conservatism and stagnation in the early eighteenth century | |
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| Mid-eighteenth-century revival and expansion | |
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| Goa and the reforms of Pombal | |
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| The Pinto 'conspiracy' | |
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| The British occupation of Goa | |
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| Eastern Empire in the Late Colonial Era: Peripheries | |
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| The Estado da �ndia beyond the sub-continent | |
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| Macau and its trade: from crisis to recovery | |
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| Macanese trade in the late eighteenth century | |
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| A glimpse of Macanese society and government | |
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| Macau and the mandarins of Guangzhou | |
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| Macau's relations with Beijing | |
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| The Macau c�mara and the crown authorities | |
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| Toehold in Timor | |
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| The loss of the Swahili coast | |
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| The ivory, gold and slave trades of Mozambique | |
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| Enter the Banias | |
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| Mozambique: a territorial empire in the making? | |
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| The Mozambique prazos after 1650 | |
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| Mozambique and the eighteenth-century reforms | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |