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Emigration and the Sea

An Alternative History of Portugal and the Portuguese

by Malyn Newitt · 2015 edition

A wide-ranging account of how exploration, empire and migration shaped the Portuguese diaspora, including the Madeirans who settled in places such as Guyana, Bermuda, Hawaii, Venezuela and South Africa.

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Author
Malyn Newitt
Edition year
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780190263935

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