A concise history of Portugal /
Portugal is one of history's most successful survivors. It is but a small country whose population rose slowly from one million to nine million over eight hundred years. In that time, it acquired a political and cultural autonomy within Europe. It also made its mark on every corner of the globe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Cambridge concise histories.
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| Summary: | Portugal is one of history's most successful survivors. It is but a small country whose population rose slowly from one million to nine million over eight hundred years. In that time, it acquired a political and cultural autonomy within Europe. It also made its mark on every corner of the globe through colonization, emigration and commerce. Unlike the more prosperous Catalonia, it succeeded in escaping from Spanish captivity in the seventeenth century. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 237 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108424196 1108424198 |