Historical Dictionary of Portugal (2nd edition)

Every day, Portugal and her legacy pass through my library’s doors. Her past is present in my city, where the descendants of her land and her former empire embody almost 10 per cent of the population. As familiar as her heritage may seem, however, Portugal’s almost 900‐year history as a nation remains largely unfamiliar to many.

Because of the paucity of academic course work and the shortage of current, general reference works for the common reader, author Douglas L. Wheeler offers the Historical Dictionary of Portugal to guide anyone who “wants to know where the nation [of Portugal] comes from...