PORTUGAL IN EUROPEAN AND WORLD HISTORY Cover -- Imprint page -- Contents -- List of Maps -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1: The Second Crusade and the Capture of Lisbon -- 2: The Hundred Years War and the Crisis of Portuguese Independence -- 3:Portugal and the Discoveries -- 4: The First European Maritime Empire -- 5: The Union with Spain and the Armada, 1578‒89 -- 6: The Portuguese Restoration and the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century -- 7: Portugal, the Inquisition and the Triumph of English Merchant Capitalism -- 8: The Lisbon Earthquake, the Enlightenment and Crisis Politics -- 9: Portugal's Moment of Truth: The French and British Struggle for the Control of Lisbon -- 10: Portugal among the Great Powers: The Scramble for Africa -- 11: Portugal and the End of Empire -- Epilogue -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.