Lochery, Neill

Out of the shadows : Portugal from revolution to the present day / Neill Lochery. - xxi, 350 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits

"Beginning with Portugal's Carnation Revolution in April 1974 and charting the country's emergence from the Estudo Novo dictatorship (in power since 1933); the new period of democracy; Portugal's time as holders of the Presidency of the European Union and the economic crisis that hit the country in 2010, this book is an account of Portugal in the closing decades of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first. It is based on documentary sources, personal accounts and unpublished documents from the National Archive in Kew

9781472934208 1472934202


Portugal--History--1974-
Portugal--Economic conditions--1974-
Portugal--Politics and government--1974-
Portugal--Foreign relations--1974-
Portugal--Social conditions--20th century.

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