THE MAKING OF PORTUGUESE DEMOCRACY by Kenneth Maxwell ( 9780521460774 )

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Title:

THE MAKING OF PORTUGUESE DEMOCRACY

By:

Kenneth Maxwell

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0521460778

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9780521460774

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 September, 1995

Pages:

268

Description:

The first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal.

Synopsis:

This vividly written book is the first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal to be placed in a broad international historical context. It is written with the benefit of a long-term vision of Portuguese history, and it emphasizes the significance of Portugal's new European orientation after centuries of global and oceanic preoccupations. After an account of the collapse of the old regime in 1974, the book studies the complex revolutionary period that followed, and the struggle in Europe and Africa to define the future role of Europe's poorest country. These events also had international repercussions which transformed the balance of forces in southern Africa, following the collapse of Europe's last overseas empire. The consequent actions and reactions of the European powers and the United States are examined, and telling comparisons are also drawn with later developments in Eastern Europe, and with the wider collapse of the communist movement.

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Cambridge University Press

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