List of illustrations
Introduction
1 Peoples，cultures and colonies
2 Rebellion and independence in the seventeenth century
3 The golden age and the earthquake in the eighteenth century
4 Brazilian independence and the Portuguese Revolution
5 The bourgeois monarchy and the republicans
6 The dictatorship and the African empire
7 Democracy and the European Community
The houses ofAvis。Be|d and Habsburg
The houses of Braganza and Braganza-Saxe-Coburg
Republican presidents
setect source materiaIs
Selected works published since 1990
Further reading in English
Index
