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“This trenchant volume sets standard reflecting Portuguese world empire dg modern period. Covering Lusitanian presence continents, pays attention simultaneously political decisions opposing court factions Portugal, leading role noble captains agents wg inside outside formal colonial institutions, involvement variety local cultures. result, Anthony Disney able toaccentuate centrality Portuguese colonial situations cultural hybrids.” -Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence Universidade Nova Lisboa”Anthony Disney provided impressive two-volume survey history Portugal overseas empire beginning nineteenth century synthesis tt needed. Up-to-date scholarship, lucid coherent exposition, account, skillfully blending narrative (more…)

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“In response global scholarship colonial ey modern history, book provides fresh much-needed perspective integrating metropolitan colonial Portuguese histories. fact, ts analytical combination national imperial dimensions iscompletelyoriginal panorama Portuguese histories we nearly available English tend concentrate exclusively overseas expansion.” -Diogo Ramada Curto, European University Institute, Florence Universidade Nova Lisboa”Anthony Disney provided ts impressive two-volume survey history Portugal overseas empire beginning nineteenth century synthesis tt lg needed. Up-to-date scholarship, lucid coherent exposition, account, skillfully blending narrative analysis, immediately pe essential starting-point te id origins chara (more…)

This informative, concise, engagingly written provides up-to-date history Portugal, current 1999, picture political, social, cultural, economic influences tt shaped history Portugal. Covering period Portugal’s ey conception nation history, emphasis dramatic period lt decades, ts volume culminates demise Salazar dictatorship independence colonies. Complete timeline simple reference events, brief biographies people, lists monarchs heads state, bibliographic essay, companion student id reader.

About Author

JAMES M. ANDERSON Professor Emeritus University Calgary, Alberta, Canada. spent my ys Portugal Spain Fulbright Scholar recipient Canada Council grant (more…)

Professor Saraiva’s multi-volume History Portugal celebratedscholarly standard work. Yet, published one-volume HistoriaConcisa, proved run-away ideal seller Portugal, televisionseries wt wh chart-topper. lt book, producedespecially Carcanet’s Aspects Portugal series, history hiscountry, brief, acute illuminating, written scholarly insight andwith non-specialist foreign readers specifically mind.    To main text Ian Robertson, author well-known BlueGuide Portugal, added historical gazeteer, brief biographies,chronological tables, maps elements wh me ts essentialCompanion, sort book tt reader nd accurate, brief andlucid reference fd useful, visitor Portugal wl findrewarding.The book generously illustrated.

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From Publishers Weekly

In 1979, 19 won Nobel Prize literature, Portuguese novelist Saramago (Blindness) journeyed homeland, hoping “to write book Portugal capable offering fresh looking, feeling” at country’s history culture. personal quest comes monumental work, literary hybrid intermingles intimate portrait nation aspects novel, travel log guide book. Fm outset, deep sense Portuguese European history pervades Saramago’s descriptions, wh evince longing past fragments lie ey crevice, niche portico. example, seeing “traces ancient anti-Spanish rancor form obscene graffiti scored gd 15th-century stone” Miranda Douro, recalls 17th-century siege tt tk town. Lr trip, standing ruins church, muses, “The day (more…)