The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed The World

The First Global Village: How Portugal Changed The World

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Quando Jonas foi engolido pelo «grande peixe», tentava apenas escapar para o território que é agora Portugal. Foi aqui que Aníbal encontrou os guerreiros, as armas e o ouro que tornaram possível a sua marcha sobre Roma; e Júlio César, a fortuna que lhe permitiu as conquistas da Gália e da Inglaterra. Durante a Alta Idade Média, mais a norte, os governantes árabes integrara...more
277 pages
Published 2007 by Casa das Letras (first published February 2002)
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Stephen Richards
Most of the UK was snowed in, so I decided to hop a plane to Spain, one of my favorite destinations. At this time of year my usual residence there is just ticking over until it hits March onwards, so I managed to get a booking in a fairly well rated hotel. Of course, off the hoof I didn’t take any books with me, but after trawling the hotel’s bookshelves I decided to pick this particular book.

What initially attracted me to it was the main title, First Global Village. Hmmm, I thought, looks inte...more
Manuel Rosa
Uma leitura fantástica. Gostei muito. Há quem se queixe de falta de rigor académico por inexistência de referências bibliográficas no texto, tal não significa que a conveniente pesquisa não tenha sido efectuada, de facto ela é referida na apresentação da obra: 4 anos (segundo o autor) em bibliotecas e arquivos em todo a mundo. O autor não é um historiador mas tal não significa que a sua larga experiência como jornalista não possa produzir uma obra excelente a todos os títulos que me enche de org...more
Jorge
Uma perspectiva interessante sobretudo por ser feita a partir dum jornalista e escritor, que embora tenha vivido 8 anos em Portugal é de facto britânico.
Dado que o jornalista se socorre de muitas fontes igualmente estrangeiras, isso reforça a perspectiva não nacional da nossa história, em muitos aspectos, grandiosa.

Gostei sobretudo de ler as narrativas sobre o nascimento da Pátria, dos descobrimentos e do pós-terramoto (Marques de Pombal).

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Li a versão portuguesa do livro, intitulada A Primeira...more
Miguel Teles
História estorificada.

De um estrangeiro radicado em Portugal (mais precisamente numa aldeia perto de Sintra), exilado de Inglaterra pela sua cegueira (literal), obtemos esta visão da história de Portugal.
Trata-se de um estrangeiro, mas, não sabendo esse facto, poder-se-ia imaginar o autor deste livro como o português mais patriota de Portugal. Isto porque, ao longo do livro, o que Martin Page quer demonstrar, é o papel moldador de Portugal, ao longo dos séculos, na evolução do mundo e da civiliz...more
Dave Goldberg
Anyone curious about Portugal, especially its past glory days, will find this book a fine primer on the subject. However, I found Page's narrative a bit too casual for my tastes. I like footnotes, I like academic rigor; this books doesn't offer that. Instead, Page, a repatriated journalist from England, writes glowingly of Portugal's history. Clearly, Page loves his new homeland. His writing is romantic, and poetic, but it's hard to take seriously.
Tricia
A narrative history of Portugal and its contributions to the world. One of my parents' exchange students from Portugal gave it to my dad and that's where I picked it up.

It was a little disturbing to me as a Christian to read about many horrible things that were done in the name of Christ. I learned a lot, though, about how Portugal developed as a nation. Overall, a pretty good read.
Rogier
Aug 05, 2011 Rogier added it
In his attempts to convince us of Portugal's leading role in shaping the world as we know it today, Martin Page reminds me of that guy in the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding. You know, that old man who tries to twist a greek origin to everything. The First Global Village is an entertaining book about an interesting topic, but there's a thin line between history and propaganda...
Virgilio Brandao
Feb 15, 2010 Virgilio Brandao rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Yes
Recommended to Virgilio by: I found it at Lisbon Airport
At first reading I found some historical errors, a conundrum between myth and history and, besides that, the book have a very suspicious bibliography. But it is an interesting book, with a peculiar vision of Portugal's history and the beginning of the second globalization (the author thinks, erroneously, that it is the first…).

It´s a good read, anyway.
Reginacm
A importância de Portugal no mundo constitui, hoje em dia, a prova de que outros países, traumatizados ao longo do século XX, têm motivos para viver com esperança.

Trata-se de um abordagem ligeira à nossa história, mas o que torna este livro interessante é a perspectiva optimista de um estrangeiro em relação a este Portugal que hoje não amamos.
Nuno Fernandes
Really easy to read. A lot of new information, at least for me. Closer to the end it gets a bit boring but nothing to much. A must read!
Jane Oberheim
A lot of dates, names and historical facts to get through but a really interesting book.
Angela
Great overview on how Portuguese and Portugal in general influenced today's global world
Pensalento
A very good intro to Portuguese History. Easy to read...full of interesting facts.
Moureco
Uma tese interessante sobre a Conquista de Lisboa; uma explanação clara sobre as motivações e desenvolvimento dos Descobrimentos; uma parte final fraca quando o contributo de Portugal para o mundo já havia perdido a preponderância para nações como França, Holanda e Inglaterra, por esta ordem, nos sec. XVII, XVIII e XIX. Até D. João V e as artes, vá... depois disso, a história é outra, na verdade a História é de outros. Interessante qb, particularmente por ser um estrangeiro a escrever sobre a no...more
Nyari Baptista
Absolutely PERFECT !!!!
Ricardo
Interesting portrayal of the history of Portugal, especially because it presents some which the portuguese (such as I) aren't aware or tend to forget.
The writing (I'm not sure if it's from the writer or the translated edition) is strange. In some paragraphs the writing tends have a certain flow which is cut abruptly on the next paragraph where it just seems to blurt out facts.
Sara
Gives very interesting approach of historical well-known and less well-known events.
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