Proceedings of the First Colloquium of the Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries / edited by T.F. Earle & Stephen Parkinson.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Studies in the Portuguese discoveries ; 1.
Corporate Author: Linacre College (University of Oxford). Centre for the Study of the Portuguese Discoveries. Colloquium
Other Authors: Earle, T. F. (Thomas Foster)
Parkinson, Stephen, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Warminster, Wilts [England] : Aris & Phillips with the Comissão Nacional para as Comemoracões dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, [1992], ©1992.
Series:Studies in the Portuguese discoveries ; 1.
Subjects:
Portugal > History > Period of discoveries, 1385-1580 > Congresses.
Portugal > Colonies > Congresses.
Discoveries in geography > Portuguese > Congresses.
Genre:
Congresses.
Physical Description:iv, 123 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prince Henry and the necessary end / P.E. Russell
  • The Portuguese in the Maldive Islands / John Villiers
  • Mixed race groups in the early history of Portuguese expansion / Malyn Newitt
  • Portuguese shipbuilding / Richard Barker
  • A consequence of discovery: astronomical navigation in fifteenth-century Portugal / Francis Maddison
  • The computer analysis of João de Barros' Ásia / Stephen Parkinson.