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Uma Nova História da Madeira

A Formação de Portugal

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.

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Author
Carlos Costa Martins
Publisher
Independently published
Language
Portuguese
ISBN-13
9798242852259

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