This account traces the history of the Portuguese overseas discoveries, following the expansion into the Atlantic island, the Madeiras, and the Azores. It continues the account with the history of Portuguese discoveries along the African coast, at Guinea, the Congo, and Good Hop…
História de Portugal
by Mattoso, José, Tengarrinha, José
fromColeção História (Bauru, Brazil)
A blend of historical analysis with entertaining anecdotes, including the idiosyncrasies that make the Portuguese unique.
A blend of historical analysis with entertaining anecdotes, including the idiosyncrasies that make the Portuguese unique.
A blend of historical analysis with entertaining anecdotes, including the idiosyncrasies that make the Portuguese unique.
This book offers a fascinating exploration into the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political boundaries began to take shape in the midst of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsul…
This book offers a fascinating exploration into the evolution of the Portuguese economy over the course of eight centuries, from the foundation of the kingdom in 1143, when political boundaries began to take shape in the midst of the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsul…
"Gupta considers decolonization through the twined lenses of history and ethnography, accessed through written, oral, visual and eyewitness accounts of how people experienced the transfer of state power. She looks at the materiality of decolonization as a movement of peoples acr…
