Portugal

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956887372Author Jose AntonioFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Antelope Hill PublishingPublisher Antelope Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

25 April 1974, Lisbon. Over the course of a single day, Europe's oldest fascist regime falls. On its 50th anniversary, this is the story of the revolution that changed Portugal forever. 'A thrilling and inspiring page-turner.' Richard Zimler, author...

'I fell in love with Porto and I love it still. The city's spectacular bridges, its vertiginous riverbanks, steep with ancient buildings, the old port houses, the wide squares: I was entranced by them all.' J.K. ROWLING One of the oldest cities in...

This is the story of the first and one of the greatest colonial empires: its birth, apotheosis, and decline. By approaching the history of the Portuguese empire thematically, A. J. R. Russell-Wood is able to pursue ideas and make connections that...

Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the Axis power operated openly, it was temporary home to much of Europe's exiled royalty, over one million...

The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised Selected by Foreign Affairs as one of the Best Books of 2023 "Will surely become the definitive account."-Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal In July 1588 the...

An incisive account of modern Spain, from the death of Franco to the Catalan referendum and beyond "Comprehensive and engaging."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times Spain's transition to democracy after Franco's long dictatorship was widely hailed as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027343744Author William Hickling PrescottFormat PaperbackPage Count 632Imprint E-ArtnowPublisher E-ArtnowWeight(grams) 835gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Rethinking Catholicism in Renaissance Spain claims that theology and canon law were decisive for shaping ideas, debates, and decisions about key political and religious problems in Renaissance Spain.This book studies Catholic thought during the Spanish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785386480Author P S QuickFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Acorn Books LtdPublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

A corrective to conventional accounts of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I in medieval Iberia Acclaimed historians Bernard F. Reilly and Simon R. Doubleday tell the story of the reign of Queen Sancha and King Fernando I, who together ruled...

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious political roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947544055Author Jose LeitaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Revelore PressPublisher Revelore PressWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912174102Author Lt. General Jonathon RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'etre and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637160718Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

For some historians, medieval Iberian society was one marked by peaceful coexistence and cross-cultural fertilization; others have sketched a harsher picture of Muslims and Christians engaged in an ongoing contest for political, religious, and economic...

Originally published in 1938, this bibliography was compiled by the historian and Portuguese scholar Edgar Prestage (1869-1951). The documents described all relate to the 'political, military, and diplomatic aims and action of Portugal during the period...

Contemporary Spain and Portugal share a historical experience as Iberian states which emerged within the context of al-Andalus. These centuries of Muslim presence in the Middle Ages became a contested heritage during the process of modern nation-building...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060096649Author Peter EisnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 596gDimensions(mm)...

Just after half past nine on the morning of Sunday 1 November 1755, the end of the world came to the city of Lisbon. On a day that had begun with blue skies and gentle warmth, Portugal's proud capital was struck by a massive earthquake. After a brief,...

A People's History of Portugal reconstructs the last two hundred years of class struggle in Portugal. Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa examine the material conditions of its people - examining the real causes of the revolutionary waves and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839997419Author CARL W. ACKERMANFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781839997402Author CARL W. ACKERMANFormat HardbackPage Count 100Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 153mm *...

Arthur Bullard's The Russian Pendulum (1919) is a personal and political analysis of the Russian Revolution, from the Revolution of 1905 through the beginning of the Civil War in 1918. It reflects Bullard's own perspective, as an advocate for change in...

Arthur Bullard's The Russian Pendulum (1919) is a personal and political analysis of the Russian Revolution, from the Revolution of 1905 through the beginning of the Civil War in 1918. It reflects Bullard's own perspective, as an advocate for change in...

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social...

Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans...

Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompson's conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMatthew Lee Miller is assistant professor of history at Northwestern College.Book InformationISBN 9781839997372Author Matthew Lee MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Malcolm Grow's commentary presents us with a fascinating personal account of wartime experience, one that highlights a number of pertinent issues of Russia's experience of total war. While military historiography is replete with studies of battle plans...

Crosley's book of published letters is a unique and interesting addition to the body of first-hand literature on the Russian Revolution. It is particularly important as the product of a female author. Pauline Crosley's role and experience in Russia in...

Charles Edward Russell was a major intellectual and political figure of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century United States. As a very well-known American radical, he published many books on the US economy, the condition of workers, social...

Crosley's book of published letters is a unique and interesting addition to the body of first-hand literature on the Russian Revolution. It is particularly important as the product of a female author. Pauline Crosley's role and experience in Russia in...

Donald Thompson in Russia is a compilation of letters to his wife Dorothy in Topeka, Kansas, illustrated with photos. First published in 1918, it outlines Thompson's conspiracy thesis that :German intrigue, working among the unthinking masses, has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMatthew Lee Miller is assistant professor of history at Northwestern College.Book InformationISBN 9781839997365Author Matthew Lee MillerFormat HardbackPage Count...

Edward Alsworth Ross, one of the founders of the academic field of sociology, spent July-December 1917 traveling across the Russian Empire and talking to the people there. As he states in his brief introduction, "I have taken it as my business to...

This book is a first-hand account of the Russian Revolution and its impact on the Russian people. Cantacuzene, an American journalist who lived in Russia during the revolution, provides a detailed and personal narrative of the events leading up to the...

Chicago native, political activist, and journalist Ernest Poole (1880-1950) provides a distinctive view of the Bolshevik Revolution in his work, The Village: Russian Impressions. This work is unusual in the library of American accounts of Revolutionary...