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The Making of Portuguese Democracy
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 34.00The first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal. more...
The Limits of Royal Authority
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 42.00A study of the variety of resistance to royal commands in Castile in the 1630s and 1640s. more...
Judging Maria de Macedo
LSU Press 2011; US$ 24.95On February 20, 1665, the Inquisition of Lisbon arrested Maria de Macedo, the wife of a midlevel official of the Portuguese Treasury, after she revealed during a deposition that, since she was ten years old, an enchanted Moor had frequently taken her to a magical castle in the legendary land of wonders known as the Hidden Isle. The island paradise... more...
The Lisbon Route
Ivan R. Dee 2011; US$ 27.95The Lisbon Route tells of the extraordinary World War II transformation of Portugal's tranquil port city into the great escape hatch of Nazi Europe. Royalty, celebrities, diplomats, fleeing troops, and ordinary citizens desperately slogged their way across France and Spain to reach the neutral nation. As well as offering freedom from war, Lisbon provided... more...
Lisbon: City of the Sea
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 40.00"Lisbon: City of the Sea" is a beautifully written portrait of a much loved city, from its origins in Greek legend to the present day. Malcolm Jack vividly captures the rich and unique history of this haunting and attractive port whose prominent position on the Tagus estuary has inextricably bound its character with the sea. Lisbon is a city... more...
Barcelona
National Geographic Society 2011; US$ 12.95Beginning with a vivid description of his wedding in the splendid medieval ceremonial chamber in Barcelona's city hall, Hughes launches into a lively account of the history, art, and architecture of the storied city. He tells of architectural treasures abounding in 14th-century Barcelona, establishing it as one of Europe's great Gothic cities, while... more...
Histories of Infamy
University Press of Colorado 2011; US$ 19.95In Histories of Infamy, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera explores Francisco López de Gómara's (1511-ca.1559) attempt to ethically reconcile Spain's civilizing mission with the conquistadors' abuse and exploitation of Native peoples. The most widely read account of the conquest in its time, Gómara's Historia general de las Indias y Conquista de México rationalized... more...
History and Chronicles in Late Medieval Iberia
BRILL 2011; US$ 135.00This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the construction of the late medieval chronicle in Iberia by means of an examination of eighteen different late medieval accounts of the reign of the Visigothic king Wamba. more...
Writing Galicia into the World
Liverpool University Press 2011; US$ 125.00Writing Galicia explores a part of Europes cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped: the exciting body of creative work emerging since the 1970s from contact between the small Atlantic country of Galicia, in the far north-west of the Iberian peninsula, and the Anglophone world. Unlike the millions who participated... more...
Holy War
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 23.99A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama?s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies and, with it, access to the fabled... more...









