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Book Portugal  The Story of the Nation

Download or read book Portugal The Story of the Nation written by Henry Morse Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to give a short chronological history of Portugal. "The Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the Spaniards, and their language differs but slightly from the Spanish. Its early history is merged in that of the rest of the peninsula, and but for two great men..."

Book The Story of the Nations

Download or read book The Story of the Nations written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Portugal

Download or read book The Story of Portugal written by Henry Morse Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Nation upon the Ocean Sea

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  • Author : Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2007-01-04
  • ISBN : 0198039115
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book A Nation upon the Ocean Sea written by Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the opening of sea routes in the fifteenth century, groups of men and women left Portugal to establish themselves across the ports and cities of the Atlantic or Ocean sea. They were refugees and migrants, traders and mariners, Jews , Catholics, and the Marranos of mixed Judaic-Catholic culture. They formed a diasporic community known by contemporaries as the Portuguese Nation. By the early seventeenth century, this nation without a state had created a remarkable trading network that spanned the Atlantic, reached into the Indian Ocean and Asia, and generated millions of pesos that were used to bankroll the Spanish empire. A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea traces the story of the Portuguese Nation from its emergence in the late fifteenth century to its fragmentation in the middle of the seventeenth and situates it in relation to the parallel expansion and crisis of Spanish imperial dominion in the Atlantic. Against the backdrop of this relationship, the book reconstitutes the rich inner life of a community based on movement, maritime trade, and cultural hybridity. We are introduced to mariners and traders in such disparate places as Lima, Seville and Amsterdam, their day-to-day interactions and understandings, their houses and domestic relations, their private reflections and public arguments. This finaly-textured account reveals how the Portuguese Nation created a cohesive and meaningful community despite the mobility and dispersion of its members; how its forms of sociability fed into the development of robust transatlantic commercial networks; and how the day-to-day experience of trade was translated into the sphere of Spanish imperial politics of commercial reform based on religious-ethnic toleration and the liberalization of trade. A microhistory, A Nation Upon the Ocean Sea contributes to our understanding of the broader histories of capitalism, empire, and diaspora in the early Atlantic.

Book The Story of the Nations  Portugal

Download or read book The Story of the Nations Portugal written by H. Morse Stephens and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Story of the Nations: Portugal by H. Morse Stephens

Book The Story of the Nations  Portugal

Download or read book The Story of the Nations Portugal written by H. Morse Stephens and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey through the rich tapestry of Portugal's history with H. Morse Stephens' "The Story of the Nations: Portugal." This comprehensive account chronicles the nation's rise and fall, its triumphs and tribulations, and its lasting impact on the world stage. Stephens' meticulous research and engaging narrative style bring to life the events, figures, and cultural shifts that have shaped Portugal, offering readers a deep understanding of its storied past.

Book The Story of the Nations

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  • Author : H. Morse Stephens
  • Publisher : Alpha Edition
  • Release : 2019-06
  • ISBN : 9789353708962
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book The Story of the Nations written by H. Morse Stephens and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Book The History of Nations  Spain and Portugal

Download or read book The History of Nations Spain and Portugal written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Portugal   The Story of the Nation

Download or read book Portugal The Story of the Nation written by Henry Morse Stephens and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to give a short chronological history of Portugal. "The Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the Spaniards, and their language differs but slightly from the Spanish. Its early history is merged in that of the rest of the peninsula, and but for two great men..."

Book The Story of the Nations

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  • Author : Stephens H Morse (Henry Morse)
  • Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
  • Release : 2016-06-23
  • ISBN : 9781318091034
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book The Story of the Nations written by Stephens H Morse (Henry Morse) and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Portugal Story  Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery

Download or read book The Portugal Story Three Centuries of Exploration and Discovery written by John Dos Passos and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation

Download or read book Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation written by Miriam Bodian and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-22 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An engaging introduction to the tortuous plight faced by exiled conversos in Amsterdam and their methods of response. Choicet; In this skillful and well-argued book Miriam Bodian explores the communal history of the Portuguese Jews . . . who settled in Amsterdam in the seventeenth century." —Sixteenth Century Journa Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, and literary works, among other sources, Miriam Bodian tells the moving story of how Portuguese "new Christian" immigrants in 17th-century Amsterdam fashioned a close and cohesive community that recreated a Jewish religious identity while retaining its Iberian heritage.

Book The History of Portugal

Download or read book The History of Portugal written by James Maxwell Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most up-to-date short history of Portugal available, current through 1999.

Book A Short History of Portugal

Download or read book A Short History of Portugal written by H. Morse Stephens and published by Serapis Classics. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE Story of Portugal possesses a peculiar interest from the fact that it is to its history alone that the country owes its existence as a separate nation Geographically, the little kingdom is an integral portion of the Iberian peninsula, with no natural boundaries to distinguish it from that larger portion of the peninsula called Spain; its inhabitants spring from the same stock as the Spaniards, and their language differs but slightly from the Spanish. Its early history is merged in that of the rest of the peninsula, and but for two great men, Affonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, and John I., the founder of the house of Aviz, Portugal would not at the present day rank among the independent nations of Europe. The first of these monarchs created his dominions into a kingdom like Leon, Castile, and Aragon, and the latter encouraged the maritime explorations which gave the little country an individuality and national existence, of which it was justly proud. When Philip II. annexed Portugal in 1580, it was at least a century too late for the Portuguese to coalesce with the Spaniards. They had then produced Vasco da Gama and Alboquerque and other great captains and explorers, who had shown Europe the way to India by sea; and their tongue had been developed by the genius of Camoens and Sá de Miranda, from a Romance dialect, similar to those used in Gallicia, Castile, or Aragon, into a great literary language. Conscious of its national history, Portugal broke away again from Spain in 1640, and under the protection of England maintained its separate existence during the eighteenth century...

Book The History of Portugal

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  • Author : James M. Anderson
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2000-02-28
  • ISBN : 0313032602
  • Pages : 249 pages

Download or read book The History of Portugal written by James M. Anderson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This informative, concise, and engagingly written work provides the most up-to-date history of Portugal, current through 1999, and gives a full picture of the political, social, cultural, and economic influences that shaped the history of Portugal. Covering the period from Portugal's early conception as a nation through its long history, with emphasis on the dramatic period of the last several decades, this volume culminates with the demise of the Salazar dictatorship and the independence of its colonies. Complete with a timeline for easy reference to events, brief biographies of important people, lists of monarchs and heads of state, and a bibliographic essay, it is the ideal companion for the student or interested reader. In nine chapters, Anderson discusses the geography of Portugal, its prehistoric antecedents, its formation as a nation, and the events that once made it a world leader in exploration, discovery, and imperial power. How and why the country was drawn into the orbit of its large neighbor, Spain, lost much of its empire, and yet managed to regain its independence are examined, along with the trials and tribulations encountered on its journey from monarchy to modern republic. The discussion presents the factors that kept Portugal one of the poorest nations in Europe for most of its existence and the reasons that it is now, leading into the 21st century, closing the economic gap with wealthier nations.

Book A Brief History of Italy

Download or read book A Brief History of Italy written by Jeremy Black and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jeremy Black skilfully sketches social, cultural and political trends' - Christina Hardyment, Times audiobook of the week 'A remarkable mixture of cold history, wide culture and personal experience' Ciro Paoletti, Secretary General of the Italian Commission of Military History Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain made consolidation of political control all the more difficult. This concise history covers, in very readable fashion, the formative events in Italy's past from the rise of Rome, through a unified country in thrall to fascism in the first half of the twentieth century right up to today. The birthplace of the Renaissance and the place where the Baroque was born, Italy has always been a hotbed of culture. Within modern Italy country there is fierce regional pride in the cultures and identities that mark out Tuscany, Rome, Sicily and Venice to name just a few of Italy's many famous regions. Jeremy Black draws on the diaries, memoirs and letters of historic travellers to Italy to gain insight into the passions of its people, first chronologically then regionally. In telling Italy's story, Black examines what it is that has given Italians such cultural clout - from food and drink, music and fashion, to art and architecture - and explores the causes and effects of political events, and the divisions that still exist today.

Book The Story of Portugal

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  • Author : Henry Morse Stephens
  • Publisher : Palala Press
  • Release : 2015-08-31
  • ISBN : 9781340687977
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book The Story of Portugal written by Henry Morse Stephens and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.