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Renascent Empire?
Amsterdam University Press 2001; US$ 55.50A detailed study about Portuguese colonial policy in Asia more...
Utopias of Otherness
University of Minnesota Press 2003; US$ 67.50In Utopias of Otherness, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil, both subject to the economic, political, and cultural forces of postmodern globalization. Arenas analyzes responses to these trends in contemporary writers including José Saramago, Caio Fernando Abreu, Maria Isabel Barreno, Vergílio Ferreira, Clarice Lispector, and Maria Gabriela... more...
Uncertain Beginnings
Port Campbell Press 2011; US$ 12.99In the late 1400s, under the leadership of Prince Henry the Navigator, Portugal developed into a leader in the discovery of new oceans and islands. However, in 1580, the Spanish invaded Portugal and the country became subservient to the Spanish Crown. Spain also had its set-backs: the disastrous voyage of Magellan in 1520 to 1523, with its terrible... more...
Diasporic Generations
Berghahn Books 2011; US$ 70.00Mette Louise Bergs work is a productive, insightful and timely intervention in the study of the Cuban diaspora and other contemporary transnational movements . . . an original and substantial contribution to the scholarly literature on migration. Jorge Duany, University of Puerto Rico. ...well-written and intelligent, and deals with the Cuban... more...
A Brief History of the Celts
Constable & Robinson 2013; US$ 13.11For centuries the Celts held sway in Europe. Even after their conquest by the Romans, their culture remained vigorous, ensuring that much of it endured to feed an endless fascination with Celtic history and myths, artwork and treasures. A foremost authority on the Celtic peoples and their culture, Peter Berresford Ellis presents an invigoration overview... more...
A Military History of Modern Spain: From the Napoleonic Era to the International War on Terror
ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 75.00In the 19th and 20th centuries, Spain was a key player in the military conflagrations that created modern Europe. From the Napoleonic Wars, through the dress rehearsal for World War II that was the Spanish Civil War, to the grim struggle against terrorism today, the military history of modern Spain has both shaped and reflected larger forces beyond... more...
Culture and Customs of Portugal
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 50.00Portugal is evolving quickly as an integrated part of modern Europe. What was until the mid-1970s an old-world society, where 80 percent of the economy was controlled by an oligarchy of eight elite families, is now increasingly a model of an advanced European state. Portugal now ranks highly among the countries of the world in level of globalization... more...
Blood and Faith
New Press, The 2009; US$ 19.95In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged to abandon... more...
The Portuguese Revolution
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2010; US$ 34.99Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974?1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well... more...
Una historia de España
Edhasa 1753; US$ 17.08Esta no es una historia de España más. Tanto en el estricto sentido territorial, como en el sentido político y jurídico, España es un Estado reciente, que data del último tercio del siglo XX. Antes de esta fecha, el espacio geográfico y político que se denominaba "España" ha atravesado diversas vicisitudes sociales, distintas formas políticas y fronteras... more...









