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Conquerors : how Portugal seized the Indian Ocean and forged the first global empire (engelsk)

Af Roger Crowley (2015)
Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of 30 years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade

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