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Portugal
Index
Like its predecessor, this study attempts to review the
history and treat in a concise and objective manner the
dominant
social, political, economic, and military aspects of
Portugal.
Sources of information included books, scholarly journals,
foreign and domestic newspapers, official reports of
government
and international organizations, and numerous periodicals
on
Portuguese and international affairs. Chapter
bibliographies
appear at the end of the book, and brief comments on some
of the
more valuable sources recommended for further reading
appear at
the end of each chapter. A Glossary is also included.
Spellings of place-names used in the book are in most
cases
those approved by the United States Board on Geographic
Names.
Exceptions are the use of Lisbon rather than Lisboa, the
Portguese form of the capital's name, and Azores rather
than
Açores.
Measurements are given in the metric system. A
conversion
table is provided to assist those readers who are
unfamiliar with
metric measures (see
table 1, Appendix).
The body of the text reflects information available as
of
January 1993. Certain other portions of the text, however,
have
been updated: the Introduction discusses significant
events that
have occurred since the completion of the research, and
the
Bibliography includes recently published sources thought
to be
particularly helpful to the reader.
Data as of January 1993
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