Descobrimento da Ilha da Madeira

History & Culture

Uma Nova História da Madeira

Carlos Costa Martins

Portuguese

A Portuguese-language narrative history spanning 600 years of Madeira — from Zarco’s 1419 landing and the Funchal sugar barons through the Atlantic slave economy to the 1976 autonomy.

History & Culture

With selection notes

História da Madeira — Volume IV

Rui Carita

Portuguese · 2018 edition

Volume IV of Rui Carita’s monumental Portuguese-language history of Madeira, on the 18th century: royal centralisation, the captain-general, the Church and the treasury.

History & Culture

Nova História Económica da Madeira

Alberto Vieira

Portuguese · 2014 edition

Alberto Vieira rethinks Madeira’s economic history (in Portuguese), moving beyond product-and-cycle accounts to neglected themes such as finance and contraband in the archipelago.

History & Culture

With selection notes

Madeira, Canary Islands and Azores

A. Samler Brown

English · original edition 1901

The famous “Brown’s” practical guide for tourists and invalids, with coloured maps and diagrams, that ran through many editions and shaped early Madeira tourism.