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No dia 1 de novembro de 1755 a cidade de Lisboa foi atingida por um dos maiores terremotos jamais registados em todo o mundo. Como se não bastasse a destruição provocada pelo abalo, a cidade foi ainda fustigada pela ressaca das águas do Tejo que invadiram as zonas mais...

Bastião Fernandes, um velho marinheiro da carreira da Índia, descreve ao jovem Gaspar Correia (o futuro compilador das "Lendas da Índia") como participou nos preparativos e na viagem de descobrimento do caminho marítimo para a Índia. Relata também...

O rei D. Pedro V foi um dos mais acarinhados reis do final da monarquia portuguesa. O espírito do jovem príncipe, humilde e culto, e as infelicidades pessoais que sofreu, contribuíram para essa afeição popular. Alberto Pimentel escreveu este romance como...

This volume provides what its title suggests, important historical and general information on the Caribbean island commonly known as Hispaniola and the two countries that coexist there: Haiti and the Dominican Republic.  The five complete works included herein are: “The History of the Island...

Nonmodern Iberia was a fluid space of shifting political kingdoms and culturally diverse communities. Scholars have long used a series of obsolete investigative frameworks such as the Reconquista, along with modern ideas of nation-states, periodization, and geography that are inadequate to the study...

A shrunken head from Peru and a feather with traces of blood are the clues that launch Tahir Shah on his latest journey. Fascinated by the recurring theme of flight in Peruvian folklore, Shah sets out to discover whether the Incas really were able to “fly like birds” over the jungle, as a Spanish...

SOIT que nous nous en rapportions au tableau tracé par l’inimitable Cervantès, ou à l’auteur, presque aussi recommandable, à qui Lesage a emprunté son roman immortel  ; soit que nous en croyions les légendes les plus graves de l’histoire, soit que...

A Guerra Civil Espanhola começou em 1936 e logo se tornou um acontecimento mundial. Não só porque a Europa toda parecia um barril de pólvora prestes a explodir: na Espanha, Hitler e Stalin mediram forças, comunismo e fascismo se enfrentaram, soldados voluntários originários de muitas nações...

« Ulm et Austerlitz, le Portugal en 1807 et en 1808, Laon en 1814. Les amours de l’auteur occupent une place aussi importantes dans ses souvenirs que ses exploits militaires. » p 129 - Professeur Jean Tulard, Bibliographie Critique Sur Des Mémoires Sur Le Consulat Et L’Empire, Droz, Genève, 1971

Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography,...

'Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind them' is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from such...

Robert Blakeney was by modern standards a callow youth at the age of fifteen, in the standards of the time in which he lived he was a gentleman and a soldier. Blakeney was commissioned as a subaltern in the 28th Regiment, he was to see tough and trying service in the Peninsular under both Sir John...

The autobiography of Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet of Aliwal, is as exciting, varied and adventurous as the epic life that he led. He joined the British army in the 1st battalion of the 95th Rifles, whose dark green uniform he was proud to wear and despite an inauspicious posting along with the disastrous...

Carl von Clausewitz needs little introduction. A Prussian soldier of distinction during the Napoleonic Wars, he served in 1806 during the disastrous Jena campaign, which led to dismemberment and occupation of his homeland. He later transferred to the Russian service in 1812 and, like many of his fellow...