História Económica de Portugal (1143-2010)

História Económica de Portugal (2011) is a mostly balanced book about Portugal’s long-run political and economic development. In addition to the emphasis placed on economic history, there are several aspects that set it apart from more standard histories of Portugal. The book’s most innovative feature is its constant emphasis on a comparative perspective. It shares this ambition with the most recently published general history of Portugal (Ramos, Sousa and Monteiro, 2009), but actually achieves it in a more consistent manner. In fact, these books complement each other very well, the first focusing on long-run social, political and institutional development and the second on their economic and financial counterparts. For non-experts interested in Portuguese history, reading both provides a balanced and competent overview of over 800 years of Portuguese history