1. Peoples, cultures and colonies
2. Rebellion and independence in the seventeenth century
3. The golden age and the earthquake in the eighteenth century
4. Brazilian independence and the Portuguese Revolution
5. The bourgeois monarchy and the republicans
6. The dictatorship and the African empire
7. Democracy and the European Community
The houses of Avis, Beja and Hapsburg
The houses of Braganza and Braganza-Saxe-Coburg