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Wheeler, Douglas Lanphier was born on July 19, 1937 in St. Louis. Son of Russell Charles and Lucille (Wengler) Wheeler.
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Portugal is a small Western European nation with a large, distinctive past replete with both triumph and tragedy. One of the continent's oldest nation-states, Portugal has frontiers that are essentially unchanged since the late 14th century. The country's unique character and 850-year history as an independent state present several curious paradoxes. As of 1974, when much of the remainder of the Portuguese overseas empire was decolonized, Portuguese society appeared to be the most ethnically homogeneous of the two Iberian states and of much of Europe. This, in spite of the fact that Portuguese society had received during 2,000 years of infusions of other ethnic groups in invasions and immigration: Phoenicians, Greeks, Celts, Romans, Suevi, Visigoths, Muslims (Arab and Berber), Jews, Italians, Flemings, Burgundian French, black Africans, and Asians. Indeed, Portugal has been a crossroads, despite its relative isolation in the western corner of the Iberian Peninsula, between the West and North Africa, Tropical Africa, and Asia and America. Since 1974, Portugal's society has become less homogeneous as there has been significant immigration of former subjects from her erstwhile overseas empire. The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Portugal greatly expands on the second edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
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Wheeler, Douglas Lanphier was born on July 19, 1937 in St. Louis. Son of Russell Charles and Lucille (Wengler) Wheeler.
Bachelor of Arts in History, Dartmouth College, 1959. Master of Arts in History, Boston University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in History, Boston University, 1963.
Postgraduate, Lisbon University, 1961—1962.
Visiting assistant professor Morgan State College, Baltimore, 1965. From assistant professor to professor University New Hampshire, Durham, 1965—2002, chair department history, 1971—1974, Prince Henry the Navigator professor of Portuguese History and the Discoveries, 1995—2002, professor history emeritus, since 2002. Visiting assistant professor University College Rhodesia, Salisbury, Richard Welch Memorial fellow in Advanced Research Intelligence, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1984-1985.
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Moderator Community Church of Durham, 1983-1984, committee member since 1969. Board member Mill Pond Center, Arts Center Durham, 1982-1998, Theatre by the Sea, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1981-1985. Director New Hampshire Council World Affairs, Durham, since 1974.
1st Lieutenant United States Army Reserve, 1963-1965. Member International Conference Group on Portugal (coordinator since 1978), Society for Spanish and Portuguese History Studies (general secretary 1981-1984), National Military Intelligence Association, Association Former Intelligence Officers, National Intelligence Studies Center.
Married Katherine Wells Wheeler. Children: Katherine Gladney, Lucille Lanphier.