A review by fil
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire by Roger Crowley

3.0

This is clear and concise, with the amount of information involved it is quite the feat. Crowley strikes a good balance between too little detail and too much. He goes for a chronological approach, switching every so often from the Indian Ocean to Lisbon, Africa and, once or twice, to Brazil. He details the voyages, the Portuguese monarchs, the explorers (and their atrocities) in a detached way, emitting few comments on the treatment of the victims of the Portuguese - as a good historian should, no?

I am familiar with that time period in a very general way, this filled in many blanks and was so easy to read.