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Newitt manages, through a mixture of breezy writing, jaunty quotations, and bountiful illustrations, to produce from lackluster soil a fruitful harvest. -- Literary Review This excellent work is important not only for its specific subject, the Braganzas, but also because of its contribution to the history of where they ruled--Portugal and Brazil, as well as a contribution to dynastic history. . . . The book is ably written with many pertinent quotations. The color illustrations further lift the text, and the typeface is attractive. Thoroughly recommended. -- Journal of European Studies

Newitt is best known as a historian of the Portuguese colonial empire, especially in Africa. He writes very well, with occasional flashes of wit, and is able to combine sympathy for his royal characters with an appropriate distancing from their less appealing characteristics. -- European History Quarterly Newitt manages, through a mixture of breezy writing, jaunty quotations, and bountiful illustrations, to produce from lackluster soil a fruitful harvest. -- Literary Review This excellent work is important not only for its specific subject, the Braganzas, but also because of its contribution to the history of where they ruled--Portugal and Brazil, as well as a contribution to dynastic history. . . . The book is ably written with many pertinent quotations. The color illustrations further lift the text, and the typeface is attractive. Thoroughly recommended. -- Journal of European Studies

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A specialist in Portuguese colonial history, Malyn Newitt is the author of numerous books on the subject, including Portuguese Settlement on the Zambesi (1973), Portugal in Africa (1981), A History of Mozambique (1995), East Africa (2002) and A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion (2004).

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