RECENT PORTUGUESE PUBLICATIONS
BULLETIN 50
February
2006
PART IX:
History,
Biography, Travel
See also
items 2, 7, 10, 18, 27, 31, 41, 42, 83, 85, 95, 100, 107,
113, 123, 130, 131, 148, 177, 185, 186 & 187.
46.
ALEXANDRE, Valentim, and Jill Dias, eds.
O império africano. 1825-1890. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1998. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, X. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 864 pp., 48 illus. on 12 ll. plates,
about half in color, printed on both sides. ISBN:
972-33-1405-3. $75.00
Besides
the editors, collaborators in this volume are A.H. de
Oliveira Marques, Augusto Nascimento, Ernestina Carreira,
João Estevão, Joel Frederico Silveira, José Vicente Serrão,
Malyn Newitt and Maria da Graça Bretes. The book contains
excellent critical apparatus, including one feature so
important and sadly lacking in many otherwise important
books, i.e., a detailed analytical index (pp. 813-864).
Series editors are Joel Serrão and A.H. de Oliveira
Marques. The series is projected to 12 volumes. See also
items 57, 59, 60, 65, 69 and 70 in this section of
this Bulletin.
47.
ALVES, José Augusto dos SANTOS. Ideologia e
política na Imprensa do Exílio: O
Portuguez (1814-1826).
2nd
ed. Lisbon: Imprensa Nacional, 2005. Temas Portugueses.
Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 273 pp., (1 l. adv., 1 l.). One
of 800 copies. ISBN: 972-27-1395-7. $35.00
First
published by INIC jointly with the Centro de História da
Cultura da Universidade Nova de Lisboa,
1992.
48.
BERNARDO, Manuel A. Marcello e
Spínola: a ruptura; as forças armadas e a imprensa na queda
do Estado Novo, 1973-1974. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1996. Histórias de Portugal, 21. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 366 pp., (1 l. adv.). ISBN: 972-33-1191-7.
$35.00
49.
COSTA, Fernando Dores. A guerra da
Restauração, 1641-1668. Introduction by
Isabel Cluny and Nuno Gonçalo F. Monteiro, series eds.
Lisbon: Horizonte, 2004. Colecção Temas de História de
Portugal. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 126 pp. ISBN:
972-24-1311-2. $30.00
50.
COSTA PINTO, António. Os camisas
azuis: ideologia, elites e movimentos fascistas em
Portugal, 1914-1945. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1994. Histórias de Portugal, 6. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 342 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 972-33-0957-2.
$36.00
51.
CRUZ COELHO, Maria Helena da, and Armando Luís de Carvalho
Homem, eds. Portugal em
definição de fronteiras (1096-1325): do condado
portucalense à crise do século XIV.
Lisbon:
Presença, 1996. Nova História de Portugal, 3. Lge. 8°,
orig. illus. wrps. 858 pp., maps in text, extensive index
and bibliography, 12 ll. plates printed on both sides (8
pp. in color). ISBN: 972-23-2039-4. $75.00
Important
volume in this new multi-volume history. Besides the
editors, the team that compiled this volume consisted of
A.H. de Oliveira Marques, António Resende de Oliveira,
Francisco Pato de Macedo, Hermenegildo Fernandes, Leontina
Ventura, Maria Alegria Fernandes Marques, Maria José
Azevedo Santos, Maria Rosa Ferreira Marreiros, Maria Teresa
Nobre Veloso, and Saul António Gomes. The series, under the
general direction of Joel Serrão and A. H. de Oliveira
Marques, is now projected to 13 volumes. As would be
expected, the series in general, and this volume in
particular, have a fresh, multi-disciplinary approach
emphasizing political and social institutions, the economy,
daily life, as well as culture and the arts. Besides this
volume, volumes 1, 2 , 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 12 have been
published to date. They are, respectively:
I:
Jorge de Alarção, ed., Portugal
das origens à romanização;
II:
Jean Pierre Leguay, A.H. de Oliveira Marques and Maria
Ângela Beiante, Portugal
das invasões germânicas à
"reconquista";
IV:
A.H. de Oliveira Marques, Portugal na
crise dos séculos XIV e XV;
V:
João José ALVES DIAS, ed., Portugal do
renascimento à crise dinástica;
VII:
Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, ed., Portugal da
paz da Restauração ao ouro do
Brasil;
IX:
A.H. de Oliveira Marques, ed., Portugal e
a instauração do liberalismo;
X:
Fernando de
Sousa and A.H. de Oliveira Marques, eds.,
Portugal e
a regeneração (1851-1900);
XI:
A. H. de Oliveira Marques and Fernando Rosas,
eds., Portugal
da monarquia para a república;
XII:
Fernando Rosas, ed., Portugal e
o Estado Novo (1930-1960).
The
respective dates of publication are 1990, 1993, 1987, 1998,
2001, 2002, 2004, 1991 and 1992. Vols. 1, 2 and 4 are
available for $65.00 each; vols. 5 and 9 are available for
$80.00 each; vols. 7 and 12 are available for $75.00 each;
vol. 10 is available for $70.00; vol. 11 is available for
$85.00.
52.
DUARTE, Luís Miguel. D. Duarte:
requiem por um rei triste. Lisbon: Círculo
de Leitores, 2005. Reis de Portugal, XI. Lge. 8°, publ.
bds. with d.j. 318 pp., 8 ll. plates, printed on both
sides, with 22 color images; genealogical and other tables
in text. ISBN: 972-42-3588-2. $40.00
Thirteenth
volume to appear of a new series; fifteen of the projected
thirty-four volumes have appeared as of this writing (10
January 2006); the first six are all listed in the History
section of our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 48; the seventh
through twelfth are listed in the same section of
our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 49; while the
thirteenth through fifteenth are listed in the present
section of this Bulletin.
The rest are scheduled for publication at the rate of three
volumes every other month. When all the volumes are
published, the set will include a biography of every
Portuguese reigning monarch. Each volume is a substantial,
well-researched, up-to-date biography of a Portuguese ruler
by a respected historian with specialized knowledge of the
period treated. We are accepting standing orders for this
collection.
53.
FERREIRA, Maria Ema Tarracha, ed. Literatura
dos descobrimentos e da expansão portuguesa. Leitura e
selecção de textos, organização, introdução e notas por
Maria Ema Tarracha Ferreira. Lisbon:
Ulisseia, 1993. Biblioteca Ulisseia de Autores Portugueses,
39. Sm. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 548 pp. ISBN: 972-568-208-4.
$35.00
54.
GARCIA, José Manuel. Breve
história dos descobrimentos e expansão de
Portugal. Lisbon:
Presença, 1999. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 243 pp. ISBN:
972-23-2524-8. $23.00
55.
GULBENKIAN, Roberto. Estudos
históricos. 3 vols. Lisbon:
Academia Portuguesa da Historia, 1995. Lge. 8°, orig. prtd.
wrps. x, 393 pp., (3 ll.), maps & other illus. in text;
(3 ll.), 448 pp., (1 l.), maps & other illus. in text;
288 pp., (3 ll.). ISBN: none. 3
vols. $125.00
Volume
I is subtitled: Relações
entre Portugal, Arménia e Médio
Oriente; volume
II: Relações
entre Portugal, Irão e
Médio-Oriente;
Volume III: Vária.
Some of the essays collected here are written in French,
others in Portuguese; a few are in English. They are
enhanced by a full critical apparatus, including useful
footnotes, bibliographies and indices. A substantial
portion of the final volume is taken up with "The
Translation of the Four Gospels into Persian" (pp.
[7]-108), a heavily -annotated and most interesting
contribution. The author makes good use of his knowledge of
Middle Eastern languages.
56.
JACKSON, K. David. De Chaul a
Batticaloa: as marcas do império marítimo português na
India e no Sri Lanka. Preface by
Jorge Flores. Ericeira: Mar de Letras, 2005. Lge. 4° (24.1
x 19.7 cm.), orig. illus. wrps. xvi, 233 pp., (1 l.), 4 ll
color plates, printed on both sides. ISBN: 972-8379-41-2.
$68.00
57.
JOHNSON, Harold, and Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva,
eds. O império
luso-brasileiro, 1500-1620. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1992. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, VI.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 599 pp., maps, tables and diagrams
in text, 8 ll. plates, printed on both sides (about half
color). ISBN: 972-33-0880-0. $65.00
The
volume is divided into three parts: "Do descobrimento à
união ibérica," by Filipe Nunes de Carvalho;
"Desenvolvimento e expansão da economia brasileira," by
Johnson, and "Sociedade, instituições e cultura," by Nizza
da Silva. Series editors are Joel Serrão and A.H. de
Oliveira Marques. The series is projected to 12 volumes, of
which seven have now been published. See also items 46, 59,
60, 65, 69 and 70 in this section of this
Bulletin.
58.
MADUREIRA, Nuno Luís, ed. A história
da energia: Portugal, 1890-1990. Lisbon:
Horizonte, 2005. Colecção Horizonte Univeritário, [71?].
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 228 pp., (1 l. adv.), maps, tables
and graphs in text. ISBN: 972-24-1417-8. $30.00
59.
MATOS, Artur Teodoro de, ed. A
colonização atlântica. 2 tomos.
Lisbon: Estampa, 2005. Nova História da Expansão
Portuguesa, III, tomos 1 & 2. 8°, orig. illus. wrps.
605 pp., maps, tables and graphs in text, 4 ll. color
plates, printed on both sides; 533 pp., maps, tables and
graphs in text, 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides.
ISBN: 972-33-2192-0 (tomo 1); 972-33-2193-9 (tomo 2);
972-33-0320-5 (complete work). 2
tomos. $130.00
The
first tomo deals mainly with the Canary Islands, Azores and
Madeira. The second deals for the most part with Cabo
Verde, and the islands of the Guinea Gulf: Fernando Pó, São
Tomé, Príncipe e Ano Bom. Contributors to these tomos
include Alberto Vieira, Avelino de Freitas de Meneses, João
José Abreu de Sousa, José Abreu de Sousa, José Damião
Rodrigues, José Guilherme Reis Leite, Miguel Jasmins
Rodrigues, Nelson Verísimo, Raquel Soeiro de Brito, André
Teixeira, Arlindo Manuel Caldeira, Artur Teodoro de Matos,
Carlos Agostinho das Neves, Cristina Maria Seuanes Serafim,
Lúcia M.L. Tomás, Luís da Cunha Pinheiro, Maria Manuel
Ferraz Torrão, and Nuno da Silva Gonçalves. See also items
46, 57, 60, 65, 69 and 70 in this section of this
Bulletin.
60.
MAURO, Frédéric, ed. O império
luso-brasileiro, 1620-1750. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1991. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, VII.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 516 pp., maps, plans, tables and
graphs in text, 8 ll. plates, printed on both sides (about
half in color). ISBN: 972-33-0320-5. $60.00
The
volume is divided into four parts: "O quadro internacional
e imperial," by Jacques Marcadé; "A implantação das
estruturas de Portugal na América (1620-1750)," by Guy
Martinière; "A cultura implícita," by Maria Beatriz Nizza
da Silva; and "A cultura explícita (1650-1750)," by René
Renou. Series editors are Joel Serrão and A.H. de Oliveira
Marques. The series is projected to 12 volumes. See also
items 46, 57, 59, 65, 69 and 70 in this section of
this Bulletin.
61.
MELO, Filomena Borja de, Sofia Lucas Martins, Filipa
Ribeiro Silva, and Mário Santos. As estradas
em Portugal: memória e história. Amélia Aguiar
Andrade, ed. Prefaces by António Ressano Garcia Lamas. 3
volumes. N.pl.: Centro Rodoviário Português, 2002. Lge. 8°,
orig. prtd. wrps. 288 pp., 15 plates; 226 pp., 8 plates;
241 pp., 4 plates. ISBN: 972-98649-4-2; 972-98649-6-9;
972-98649-7-7. 3
volumes. $120.00
Volume
I is subtitled Documentação
do Arquivo do MOP; volume
II Bibliografia:
monografias; and volume
III Legislação,
1910-1933. Volume I is
by Melo and Martins; volumes II and III are by Silva and
Santos.
62.
MONICA, Maria Filomena. Bilhete de
identidade: memórias, 1943-1976. 2nd ed. Lisbon:
Alêtheia Editores, 2005. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 361 pp., (1
l.), 16 ll. plates, printed on both sides. ISBN:
989-622-012-3. $38.00
This
second edition is dated October 2005. There is no internal
evidence to suggest the date of the first edition, but we
guess it was only shortly prior to the first.
63.
MORAIS, Carlos Alexandre. A queda da
India portuguesa: crónica da invasão e do cativeiro. 2
edição, revista e aumentada. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1995. Histórias de Portugal, 15. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 425 pp., (1 l.), illus., maps & plans in text.
ISBN: 972-33-1134-8. $35.00
64.
NETO, Vítor. As ideias
políticas e sociais de José Félix Henriques
Nogueira. Torres Vedras:
Câmara Municipal, and Lisbon: Colibri, 2005. Linhas de
Torres, H6 [História]. Sm. folio (25.85 x 19 cm.), orig.
illus. wrps. 173 pp. ISBN: 972-772-586-4. $32.00
José
Félix Henriques Nogueira (1823-1858), has been called by
Joel Serrão "uma das personalidades-chaves dos meados do
século XIX." His Obra
completa was published
by the Imprensa Nacional (1976-1979), edited by António
Carlos Leal da Silva.
65.
NIZZA DA SILVA, Maria Beatriz, ed. O império
luso-brasileiro, 1750-1822. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1986. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, VIII.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 613 pp., tables and graphs in text,
16 ll. plates, printed on both sides (about half in color).
ISBN: none. $65.00
Contributors
to this volume are Altiva Pilatti Balhana (Chapter I, "A
população"), Nanci Leonzo (Chapter II, "A propriedade";
Chapter VII, "As instituições"), José Jobson de Andrade
Arruda (Chapter III, "A produção economica"; Chapter IV, "A
circulação, as finanças e as flutuações económicas"),
Heloísa Liberalli Belloto (Chapter VI, "O estado Português
no Brasil: sistema administrativo e fiscal"), Kenneth
Maxwell (Chapter VIII [with Nizza da Silva], "A política")
and Nizza da Silva (Chapter V, "A estrutura social";
Chapter IX, "A cultura"; Chapter X, "A vida quotidiana").
Series editors are Joel Serrão and A.H. de Oliveira
Marques. The series is projected to 12 volumes. See also
items 46, 57, 59, 60, 69 and 70 in this section of
this Bulletin.
66.
NIZZA DA SILVA, Maria Beatriz. Vida
privada e quotidiano no Brasil na época de D. Maria I e D.
João VI. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1993. Referência, 4. 8°, publ. illus. bds. 359
pp., 32 ll. plates, printed on both sides (mostly in
color). ISBN: 972-33-0915-7. $45.00
Impressive
study, based on archival research. David Higgs and
Guilherme Pereira das Neves are credited as
collaborators.
67.
NOGUEIRA DA SILVA, Ana Cristina. O modelo
espacial do estado moderno: reorganização territorial em
Portugal nos finais do antigo regime.
Lisbon:
Estampa, 1998. Histórias de Portugal, 40. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 399 pp., (1 l., 1 l. adv.), maps, illus. in text.
ISBN: 972-33-1384-7. $49.00
Master's
thesis of exceptional merit presented to the Instituto de
Ciências Sociais da Universidade de
Lisboa.
68.
OLIVEIRA, César. Os anos
decisivos: Portugal, 1962-1985, um testemunho.
Lisbon:
Presença, 1993. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 333 pp., 10 ll.
plates, printed on both sides. ISBN: 972-23-1722-9. $35.00
69.
OLIVEIRA MARQUES, A.H. de, and Paulo Drumond Braga.
A expansão
quatrocentista. Coordenação de A.H. de Oliveira
Marques. Lisbon:
Estampa, 1998. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, II.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 401 pp., maps in text, 12 ll.
plates, about half in color. ISBN: 972-33-1287-5. $50.00
As
usual in works by Prof. Oliveira Marques, this one contains
an excellent critical apparatus, including one feature so
important and sadly lacking in many otherwise important
books, i.e. a detailed analytical index (pp. 365-401).
Series editors are Joel Serrão and A.H. de Oliveira
Marques. The series is projected to 12 volumes. See also
items 46, 57, 59, 60, 65 and 70 in this section of
this Bulletin.
70.
OLIVEIRA MARQUES, A.H., ed. O império
africano. 1890-1930. Lisbon:
Estampa, 2001. Nova História da Expansão Portuguesa, XI.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 863 pp., 48 illus. on 8 ll. plates,
about half in color, printed on both sides. ISBN:
972-33-1648-X (this volume); 972-33-0320-5 (complete work).
$75.00
Besides
the editor, collaborators in this volume are Aida Faria
Freudenthal, Augusto Nascimento, Célia Reis, Fernando
Figueiredo, João Carlos Paulo, and Olga Iglésias Neves. The
book contains an excellent an critical apparatus, including
one feature so important and sadly lacking in many
otherwise important books, i.e., a detailed analytical
index (pp. 807-863). Series editors are Joel Serrão and
A.H. de Oliveira Marques. The series is now projected to 12
volumes. See also items 46, 57, 59, 60, 65 and 69 in this
section of this Bulletin.
71.
OLIVEIRA MARQUES, A.H. de. História de
Portugal. Vol.
I: Das
origens ao renascimento. Manual para uso de estudantes e
outros curiosos de assuntos do passado pátrio.
13th ed.
Lisbon: Presença, 1997. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 405 pp.,
illus., maps and tables in text, 5 folding genealogical
tables, 2 ll. color plates, printed on both sides. ISBN:
972-23-2189-7. $50.00
Since
this work first appeared in 1972, the author has made
numerous corrections, revisions, and additions, notably to
the 9th edition (1982). The present edition has even more
sweeping changes - so many that the publisher describes it
as being virtually a new work. Excellent analytical index
(pp. 373-405).
72.
OLIVEIRA MARQUES, A.H. de. História de
Portugal. Vol.
II: Do
renascimento às revoluções liberais. Manual para uso de
estudantes e outros curiosos de assuntos do passado
pátrio. 13th ed.
Lisbon: Presença, 1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 558 pp.,
illus., maps and tables in text, 2 folding genealogical
tables, 4 ll. color plates, printed on both sides. ISBN:
972-23-2254-0. $65.00
Excellent
analytical index (pp. 501-549).
73.
OLIVEIRA MARQUES, A.H. de. História de
Portugal. Vol.
III: Das
revoluções liberais aos nossos dias. Manual para uso de
estudantes e outros curiosos de assuntos do passado
pátrio. 13th ed.
Lisbon: Presença, 1998. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 701 pp.,
illus., maps and tables in text, folding genealogical
table, 8 ll. color plates, printed on both sides. ISBN:
972-23-2334-2. $70.00
Excellent
analytical index (pp. 657-691).
74.
PATRICIO, Maria Brites. Memórias.
Preface by
Mário de Vilhena. Lisbon: Colibri, 2005. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 187 pp., (8 ll. color plates, printed on both sides,
1 l.). ISBN: 972-772-584-8. $30.00
The
author, a leading radiotherapist and oncologist, worked in
Stockholm, Houston, Kyoto, Miami, etc.
75.
PELISSIER, René. História da
Guiné: portugueses e africanos na Senegâmbia,
1841-1936. 2nd ed. in
Portuguese. Translated from the French by Franco de Sousa.
2 vols. Lisbon: Estampa, 1997. Histórias de Portugal, 31-2.
8°, orig. illus. wrps. 280 pp., (1 l. adv.); 365 pp., (1
l., 1 l. adv.), maps in text. ISBN: 972-33-1277-8;
972-33-1278-6. 2
vols. $50.00
76.
PINTO, António Costa, and Nuno Severiano Teixeira,
eds. A Europa do
Sul e a construção da União Europeia,
1945-2000. Lisbon:
Imprensa de Ciências Sociais / Instituto de Ciências
Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2005. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 215 pp. ISBN: 972-671-155-X. $35.00
77.
POLONIA, Amélia. D.
Henrique: o cardeal-rei. Lisbon: Círculo
de Leitores, 2005. Reis de Portugal, XVII. Lge. 8°, publ.
bds. with d.j. 317 pp., 8 ll. plates, printed on both
sides, with 24 color images; genealogical and other tables
in text. ISBN: 972-42-3586-6. $40.00
Fifteenth
volume to appear of a new series; fifteen of the projected
thirty-four volumes have appeared as of this writing (10
January 2006); the first six are all listed in the History
section of our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 48; the seventh
through twelfth are listed in the same section of
our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 49; while the
thirteenth through fifteenth are listed in the present
section of this Bulletin.
The rest are scheduled for publication at the rate of three
volumes every other month. When all the volumes are
published, the set will include a biography of every
Portuguese reigning monarch. Each volume is a substantial,
well- researched, up-to-date biography of a Portuguese
ruler by a respected historian with specialized knowledge
of the period treated. We are accepting standing orders for
this collection.
78.
REIS, A. do Carmo, and Jorge Barros. Viagens no
extremo oriente. Porto: ASA,
1989. Folio, publ. cloth with d.j. 57 pp., (2 ll.),
profusely illus. with fine color photographs, lge. fldg.
"Roteiro do extremo oriente" tipped in. ISBN: none. $35.00
Test
by Reis, photographs by Barros.
79.
SA, Francisco Xavier Valeriano de. O Padroado
português do Oriente e os mitrados da Sé de
Goa. Preface by D.
José da Cruz Policarpo, Cardinal-Patriarch of Lisbon.
Lisbon: Plátano, 2004. Folio (30.5 x 21.5 cm.), publ.
gilt-stamped buckram with d.j. 163 pp., maps in text,
numerous illus. in color. ISBN: 972-770-296-1. $65.00
80.
SANTOS, Paula Borges. Igreja
Católica, estado e sociedade, 1968-1975: o caso Rádio
Renascença. Lisbon:
Imprensa de Ciências Sociais / Instituto de Ciências
Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, 2005. 8°, orig. illus.
wrps. 269 pp. ISBN: 972-671-162-2. $36.00
Awarded
the Prémio Fundação Mário Soares.
81.
SANTOS, Vítor Pavão dos. Amália: uma
biografia. 2nd ed. Queluz
de Baixo: Presença, 2005. Lge. 8°, orig. illus. wrps. 325
pp., illus. ISBN: 972-23-3468-9. $40.00
Biography
of Amália Rodrigues, generally considered the greatest fado
singer ever. The first edition was published in November
2005; this second edition appeared the following month.
82.
SOUSA, Bernardo Vasconcelos e. D. Afonso
IV (1291-1357). Lisbon: Círculo
de Leitores, 2005. Reis de Portugal, VII. Lge. 8°, publ.
bds. with d.j. 310 pp., 8 ll. plates, printed on both
sides, with 20 color images; genealogical and other tables
in text. ISBN: 972-42-3515-7. $40.00
Fourteenth
volume to appear of a new series; fifteen of the projected
thirty-four volumes have appeared as of this writing (10
January 2006); the first six are all listed in the history
section of our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 48;
the
seventh through twelfth are listed in the same section of
our Recent
Portuguese Publications Bulletin 49; while the
thirteenth through fifteenth are listed in the present
section of this Bulletin.
The rest are scheduled for publication at the rate of three
volumes every other month. When all the volumes are
published, the set will include a biography of every
Portuguese reigning monarch. Each volume is a substantial,
well-researched, up-to-date biography of a Portuguese ruler
by a respected historian with specialized knowledge of the
period treated. We are accepting standing orders for this
collection