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He was born on June 27, 1902 in Detroit, Texas, in the Red River Country, son of a small town lawyer, he grew up on a farm.
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Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 was first published in 1977. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This account traces the history of the Portuguese overseas discoveries, following the expansion into the Atlantic island, the Madeiras, and the Azores. It continues the account with the history of Portuguese discoveries along the African coast, at Guinea, the Congo, and Good Hope, then follows the voyages of Vasco da Gama to India and to Cabra, Brazil, and the expansion in the early years of the sixteen century to Malacca, China, and the East Indies. The volume presents not only a useful narrative of the spread of Portuguese empire but also new interpretations and analyses of the Portuguese overseas history.
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Prelude to Empire spotlights and brings into focus the events and developments in European history which prepared the way for Henry the Navigator and the age of the Great Discoveries. "Henry's just fame," writes Bailey W. Diffie, "has obscured an essential fact: in 1415 he was a man with a past as well as a future. Some forty years lay before--some forty centuries lay behind. Just as the voyages of his captains would form the indispensable base for Columbus and Vasco de Gama, so the achievements which made Henry the dominating maritime figure of his time grew from the previous experience and generations of fishermen and traders." The first study in English to examine the development of Portugues commercial methods and overseas contacts, and the first in any language to bring together all the pieces of the story, Prelude to Empire has been designed for the general reader and the college student as well as the specialist.
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He was born on June 27, 1902 in Detroit, Texas, in the Red River Country, son of a small town lawyer, he grew up on a farm.
Soon he learned Spanish, having studied both Spanish and history at Texas Christian University. He graduated from Southeastern Teachers College in Durant, Oklahoma, in 1923.
An early interest in East Asia turned to the Iberian World in 1924. Having sailed to Europe as an apprentice seaman, he returned to Texas Christian University. In August 1927 he began to study in the University of Madrid, having spent three years in Spain and France. He received a doctoral degree in 1929.
He began teaching in the City College of New York in 1930, a position he held for thirty-eight years, with visiting professorships to Yale University, New York City University and Columbia University.
He began to write on history by the mid-1930s. He wrote several books and articles on Latin American and Iberian history.
His historical study Latin American Civilization: Colonial Period was published in 1945. He was both professor emeritus at City College and a visiting professor at the University of California at Los Los Angeles
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