Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The 1891-92 Crisis and Beyond.- Chapter 3: World War I and the 1920s Financial Crisis.- Chapter 4: The Estado Novo period: The 1930s and World War II.- Chapter 5: The Estado Novo period after World War II: The golden age of economic growth (1946-1973).- Chapter 6: The 1973 crisis, the 1974 revolution and their effects on the Portuguese economy (1973-1985).- Chapter 7: The European period (1986-2017).- Chapter 8: Conclusion: Some general topics - Government, openness and external imbalance.