A History of Spain and Portugal - The Peninsula and Its People - The Pattern of their Society and Civilization

Pelican Books, 1960

This book attempts to show as a whole the Peninsula made up of Spain and Portugal, with the slow unfolding of a pattern of sociey and an attitude to life still subtly distinct from those north of the Pyrenees. The successive occupation of Roman, Visigoth and Muslim span between them more than a thousand years. The Peninsula's great contribution to the modern age was the opening up of the New World in the west by Spain, and of new routes to the east by Portugal...