On the September 10th, at 6pm, the book launch takes place The Portuguese Expansion: An Economic Historyby Nuno Valério, full professor at ISEG. The launch takes place at Lisbon Book Fair and includes a book signing.
The book is published by Principia and offers a broad perspective of Portugal's external historical and economic process, in the time span between the conquest of Ceuta in 1415 and the handover of Macau's administration to China in 1999, and presents the following aspects from an integrative perspective:
- The consequences for the formation of contemporary world society of the voyages of exploration of new oceanic routes carried out by Portuguese navigators in the 15th and 16th centuries - the so-called Discoveries - in the context of world-systems theory;
- The transformations that the successive Portuguese colonial empires that existed between the 15th and 20th centuries brought to Portuguese life;
- The impact that the connection to Portugal had on the evolution of each of the areas that were subject to Portuguese rule.
