{"product_id":"history-of-portugal-victor-g-johnson-9798198418547","title":"History of Portugal: How One Tiny Iberian Kingdom Charted the Seas, Dominated World Trade, and Forever Changed the Course of Civilization","description":"\u003cb\u003eThey divided the entire world between themselves - and almost got away with it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1494, two kingdoms sat across a table and drew a line through the middle of the planet. Everything to the east belonged to one. Everything to the west to the other. No one else was consulted. No one else was asked. And for a century, it worked - because one of those kingdoms had already done something no civilization in history had ever managed. It had learned to sail the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat kingdom was Portugal. And what it built will leave you breathless.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFew people realize that the global shipping routes carrying today's economy were charted by Portuguese sailors over five hundred years ago, navigating by starlight in wooden ships across oceans no European had ever crossed. Few know that a single small nation connected Africa, Asia, South America, and Europe into one trading world - before anyone else had even tried. And fewer still know the full price paid for that achievement, in courage, in blood, and in the suffering of millions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book tells the complete story.\u003c\/b\u003e From the medieval wars that forged Portugal's identity, to the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Bartolomeu Dias that rewired global commerce, to the sugar plantations, the slave ships, the Jesuit missionaries, the Dutch wars, the Lisbon earthquake, Napoleon's invasion, the loss of Brazil, and the final lowering of the Portuguese flag over Macau in 1999 - every chapter of this empire is here, told with the honesty and narrative power it deserves. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat you are about to discover will permanently change how you see the modern world and who actually built it.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book is for history lovers, for curious minds, for anyone who has ever looked at a map and wondered how the world came to be connected the way it is. It is for readers who want the full truth - the triumphs and the atrocities, the vision and the violence - told in a way that reads less like a textbook and more like the greatest story never properly told. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ships sailed. The world changed. Now it is your turn to discover how.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGet your copy today and begin the journey that five centuries of history have been waiting to take you on.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victor G. Johnson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198418547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.51d","brand":"Victor G. Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148589572351,"sku":"9798198418547","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/history-of-portugal-victor-g-johnson-9798198418547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}