Portugal

Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated

scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia

Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television

series that went with it became a chart-topper. His la [...]
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Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated

scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia

Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television

series that went with it became a chart-topper. His latest book, produced

especially for Carcanet's Aspects of Portugal series, is a history of his

country, brief, acute and illuminating, written with scholarly insight and

with non-specialist foreign readers specifically in mind.

To this main text Ian Robertson, author of the well-known Blue

Guide to Portugal, has added a historical gazeteer, brief biographies,

chronological tables, maps and other elements which make this an essential

Companion, the sort of book that a reader in need of accurate, brief and

lucid reference will find useful, and every visitor to Portugal will find

rewarding.

The book is generously illustrated.