This book gathers the proceedings of the International conference "Indonesia-Portugal: 500 years", gathering Portuguese and European historians to Indonesian historians from Java to Kalimantan. The book studies in-depth political, trade and cultural encounters from the first arrival of Portuguese to Indonesia, in 1512, up to the split between the two countries due to the East-Timor problem from…
The vividly written book in the first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal to be placed in a broad international historical context. It is written with the benefit of a long-term vision of Portuguese history, and it emphasizes the significance of Portugal's new European orientation after centuries of global and oceanic preoccupations.