Looking for books about Lisbon’s maritime and trade history. I’ll be going to Portugal next spring and I want to learn more about the naval and trade history. I’m looking for books that follow an academic historical apparatus but also know how to tell a story and wave intimate lives and details into their works. I’m more familiar with Italian history and I like books like: Christopher Duggan’s Fascist Voices: an intimate history of Mussolini’s Italy, R.J.B. Bosworth’s Italian Venice: a history, or Victoria de Grazia’s The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini's Italy. So, something like that but about Lisbon. I’m happy to read about different historical periods but I’m not that interested in periods before the 15th century. I’m also not necessarily looking into a focus on ideologies, fascism is in the mentioned titles just because I though these were great books.
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