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A brief history of Portugal / Jeremy Black.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Black, Jeremy, 1955- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatology.
- Names, Geographical.
- Portugal--History.
- Portugal.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 242 pages : map ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Robinson, 2020.
- Summary:
- Portugal's fascinating history is generally unknown to most travellers, or, indeed, to most non-Portuguese people as it is seldom taught at school or university level. As with his previous books, Professor Black provides a succinct, comprehensive, yet accessible history aimed at the visitor to Portugal. This is a comprehensive history of Portugal that covers the whole span, from the Stone Age to today. An introduction provides an understanding of geographical and climatic issues, before an examination of Portugal's prehistory and classical Portugal, from the Stone Age to the end of the the Roman era. Portugal's history from ad420 to the thirteenth century takes in the Suevi, Visigoths and Moors. Then, a look at medieval Portugal, covers the development of Christian Portugal culminating with the expulsion of the Moors, with a focus on key sites.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. One Introduction
- ch. Two Prehistory and Ancient Portugal: The Stone Age to the End of the Roman Era
- ch. Three Suevi, Visigoths and Moors
- ch. Four Medieval Portugal
- ch. Five The Age of Expansion, 1415-1580
- ch. Six Spanish Interlude, 1580-1640
- ch. Seven Baroque Portugal, 1640-1750
- ch. Eight Earthquakes: Physical and Political, 1750-1807
- ch. Nine The Crises of 1807-26
- ch. Ten The Nineteenth-Century Monarchy, 1826-1910
- ch. Eleven Republican Instability and Salazarist Autocracy, 1910-74
- ch. Twelve The Carnation Revolution to the Present, 1974-
- ch. Thirteen The North
- ch. Fourteen The Centre
- ch. Fifteen The South
- ch. Sixteen The Islands.
- Notes:
- "Indispensable for travellers"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-226) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781472143587
- 1472143582
- OCLC:
- 1181890624
- Publisher Number:
- 99992845399
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