v.1. Hunter-gathers to Iron Age farmers
The Roman experience
The Germanic kingdoms
Gharb al- Andalus
The medieval kingdom
The fourteenth century
The making of avis Portugal
The golden age
The tarnished age
Habsburg Portugal
Restoration and reconstruction
The age of gold and baroque splendour
The age of Pombal
The late eighteenth century: finale of the old regime.

v. 2. North Africa
Exploring the coasts of Atlantic Africa
Engaging with Atlantic Africa
The Atlantic islands and fisheries
Breakthrough to maritime Asia
Empire in the east
Informal presence in the east
Brazil: seizing and keeping possession
Formation of colonial Brazil
Late colonial Brazil
Holding on in India: the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Eastern empire in the colonial era: peripheries.