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A New History of Madeira

Name: A New History of Madeira
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ISBN: 9798285428701

The Making of Portugal

by Carlos Costa Martins · 2025 edition

An English-language narrative history of Madeira from Zarco’s 1419 arrival through the sugar era to the 1976 autonomy (the English edition of “Uma Nova História da Madeira”).

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Author: Carlos Costa Martins
Edition year: 2025
Publisher: Independently published
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9798285428701

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