This selective history of Portugal reflects the authorās fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nationās rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the authorās travels and archival research.
āDos Passos,ā writes historian J. H. Plumb, ābrings to his material a novelistās acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.ā
This selective history of Portugal reflects the authorās fascination with his own Portuguese/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nationās rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the authorās travels and archival research.
āDos Passos,ā writes historian J. H. Plumb, ābrings to his material a novelistās acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.ā