2,109円 Como o povo português tem sobrevivido às crises políticas, económicas e às suas elites. A história de uma gente que existe há muito tempo e que, apesar das contrariedades, tem tido uma «rica vida».

526円 No Carnaval de 1943 três navios alemães e um italiano, todos civis, foram incendiados e afundados, pelos próprios tripulantes, no porto de Mormugão, no então Estado Português da Índia. Resistiam assim a um ataque do SOE britânico, o serviço de operações especiais encarregue da «guerra não cavalhe...

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1,757円 Todos temos presente que Portugal tem uma História de grandes feitos, desproporcional à dimensão do país. Todos nos orgulhamos do sucesso que muitos Portugueses alcançam hoje pelo mundo. Mas talvez pensemos que essa grande História colectiva terminou num passado cada vez mais distante. E olhemos ...

3,337円 How does a totalitarian government influence the arts, and how do the arts respond? Spanish Film Under Franco raises these important questions, giving English speakers a starting point in their study of Spanish cinema. After a brief overview of Spanish film before Franco, the author proceeds to a...

10,746円 In this fascinating book, Evelina Gužauskytė uses the names Columbus gave to places in the Caribbean Basin as a way to examine the complex encounter between Europeans and the native inhabitants. Gužauskytė challenges the common notion that Columbus’s acts of naming were merely an imperial attempt...

5,490円 When Antonio María Bucareli took up his duties in 1771 as the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, he assumed command of a magnificent complexity of land areas, large and small, whose people constituted a cultural and social entity ranging from the traditional Apache to the European gentleman of the...

5,638円 In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the earl...

1,757円 "A influência moral desprendida do acto revolucionário, já em precipitado desenrolar, ajudou muito a conquista da liberdade. A presença da artilharia no campo revoltoso, a imediata adesão do «Adamastor» e do «São Rafael» ao movimento, o bombardeamento do Paço, a fuga do rei e a derrota das bateri...

1,723円 Squeezed between more powerful France and Spain, Catalonia has endured a violent history. Its medieval empire that conquered Naples, Sicily and Athens was crushed by Spain. Its geography, with the Pyrenees falling sharply to the rugged Costa Brava, is tormented, too.Michael Eaude traces this hist...

7,427円 Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades. This account of Mendoza's diplomatic ...

1,856円 Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent’s south-west rim.In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led E...