Spain category: 3192 books

A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion 1400-1668 provides an accessible survey of how the Portuguese became so influential during this period and how Portuguese settlements were founded in areas as far flung as Asia, Africa and South America. Malyn Newitt examines how the ideas and institutions...

Conheça as histórias que a História não inscreveu nos manuais de liceu! Tudo o que de mais curioso ainda há para contar sobre os reis e rainhas portugueses. Além da intimidade, da vida familiar e das desventuras românticas dos soberanos portugueses, mergulhe também nas zonas obscuras da política e seus bastidores.

Trigésimo segundo rei de Portugal, D. Pedro V (1837-1861) apenas viveu 24 anos e reinou seis. Ainda assim, marcou de forma decisiva a história do Portugal contemporâneo. Foi durante o seu reinado que se iniciou a Regeneração e Portugal entrou na modernidade - de que a inauguração do telégrafo...

O pajem de um dos príncipes da coroa portuguesa descobre que está para suceder um assassinato real, mas quando age para o evitar, dá consigo enredado nas malhas do Santo Ofício. Um extraordinário romance histórico, situado no século XVI (anos...

Todos conhecemos os pontos nevrálgicos da História de Portugal, um dos mais antigos estados-nação do mundo, casa paterna de um dos idiomas mais falados no planeta e paciente assaltado por recorrentes crises de auto- estima. Mas saberemos das zonas cinzentas? Das pequenas histórias? Dos episódios...

No dia 7 de junho de 1640 rebenta em Barcelona a «Revolta da Catalunha». O rei Filipe IV de Castela foca a sua atenção e os seus esforços naquela província do leste da península, fragilizando a defesa dos restantes domínios. É neste...

Os homens do Norte, «Nordmen» ou Normandos foram determinantes na formação das nacionalidades europeias, em particular as do centro e norte da Europa. Apesar de pouco expressivas, as incursões dos ferozes Vikings pelas terras da Ibéria deixaram algumas marcas...

A rarity amongst Peninsular accounts, are those that come from the medical services of the British army, Boutflower’s journal was printed sixty years after his death but remains even now fresh and interesting. His duty was to patch, tend and mend the fighting men of the 40th Regiment of Foot, during...

Paphos Publishers offers a wide catalog of rare classic titles, published for a new generation. The War of Spanish Succession: The Sea Battle of Malaga is a brief account of the famous battle.

The two sieges of Zaragoza in 1808 and 1809 during the Peninsular War were proverbially bitter, as the patriotic fervour encountered invading the French was unknown during their campaigns in other parts of Europe. This was to be the “guerra al cuchillo”, the war of the Spanish Guerilla, impassioned...

“These fascinating and valuable studies supplement Sir Charles Oman’s major works about the Napoleonic Wars —Wellington’s Army and the majestic seven-volume History of the Peninsular War. The subjects of study range widely and interestingly. They include a discussion of the views of...

“Whether among the first three to charge the French guns at Medellin, leading his troopers into the enemy ranks at Salamanca, or evolving order out of the chaos that bedevilled the Portuguese Army in 1809, Sir Benjamin D’Urban was not only a brave and resolute soldier but also a painstaking and...

The product of twenty years of laborious hard work, this is the definitive work on Napoleon and his times at the helm of the French Nation, written by no less than the first President of the Third Republic. Thiers moved in the highest circles of society and met with many of the surviving generals...

Louis Constant Wairy, mainly known as Constant through-out his life and as the author of his memoirs, was a man intimately connected to General Bonaparte and his wife Josephine Beauharnais, and later in their incarnation as Emperor and Empress of the French. Achieving the rank of first valet de chambre...