1,856円 Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here. Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escap...

5,587円 Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralーone of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all of Europeーis little known outside Spain. In Toledo Cathedral, Tom Nickson provides the first in-d...

5,963円 On April 26, 1937, a massive aerial attack by German and Italian forces reduced the Basque city of Gernika to rubble and left more than sixteen hundred people dead. Although the assault was initiated as part of a terror bombing campaign by Francoists against Basque Republican forces during the Sp...

405円 Beginning at 5.00 in the morning of 17 August, 1963, in the execution chamber of Carabanchel Prison, Madrid, two anarchists ーFrancisco Delgado and Joaquin Delgado of ‘Defensa Interior’, the anti-Francoist defence committee of the Libertarian Movement in Exile (CNT, FAI, FIJL) ー were strangled a...

2,109円 O primeiro livro a fazer o balanço dos 150 anos do Grupo Espírito Santo: desde a sua fundação, com José Maria Espírito Santo, ainda no século XIX, até ao fim, entre 2013 e 2014. Escrita por Luciano Amaral, especialista em história económica portuguesa, esta obra conta a estratégia de crescimento ...

6,312円 Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as...

164円 A Revolta de 31 de Janeiro de 1891 foi o primeiro movimento revolucionário que teve por objectivo a implantação do regime republicano em Portugal. A revolta teve lugar na cidade do Porto. A afirmação da data, no caso o 31 de Janeiro de 1891, contribui para balizar os episódios que levaram à insta...

1,657円 “Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” ー Abraham Lincoln. Recollections of life on a plantation pre-Civil War, a thrilling slave escape story, Fifty Years in Chains by Charles Ball, a famous essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, a su...

3,050円 Live Souls presents 210 of the numerous photos that Alec Wainman took in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, and his personal story of his time as a volunteer member of the British Medical Unit. Until the present only a small number of his photos have appeared in a few historical books, where the...

2,636円 A crise económica que assombra a Europa nos últimos anos teve um impacto profundo em Portugal, onde acentuou também a polarização entre direita e esquerda em várias dimensões da vida política e social. O regresso em força do termo «direita» à sombra do governo PSD-CDS (2011-2015) sugere a necessi...

343円 El tema de un libro a veces inspiraba la aparición de una película … Pero pocos libros, de gran notoriedad, se convierten en el tema de una importante y compleja ruta turística histórico-cultural (inspiraron la aparición de una rutas turísticas). Aqui esta ella, la novela ”Los fantasmas de Tarrag...

8,116円 Knighthood and chivalry are commonly associated with courtly aristocracy and military prowess. Instead of focusing on the relationship between chivalry and nobility, Jesús D. Rodríguez-Velasco asks different questions. Does chivalry have anything to do with the emergence of an urban bourgeoisie? ...