A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution write by Raquel Varela. This book was released on 2019. A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On April 25, 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Estado Novo's fascist government in Portugal. Ordinary people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a land for those who work in it. This spontaneous revolt placed power in the hands of the working classes, trade unions, and women. In order to understand the Carnation Revolution, we must recognize it as an international coalition of social movements, comprised of struggles for independence in Portugal's African colonies, the rebellion of the young military captains of the Armed Forces Movement, and the uprising of Portugal's long-oppressed working classes. Cutting against the grain of mainstream accounts, Raquel Cardeira Varela shows how it was through the organizing power of these diverse movements that a popular-front government was instituted along with the nation's withdrawal from its overseas colonies. Offering a rich account of the challenges these coalitions faced and the victories they won through revolutionary means, this book tells the tumultuous history behind the Carnation Revolution.
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution
A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution write by Raquel Varela. This book was released on 2019. A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975
The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975 write by Maria Inácia Rezola PhD. This book was released on 2023-11-17. The Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As Portugal is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution, this book conveys a global and differentiating perspective on the aims and actions of its three main protagonists – the Armed Forces, the political parties and mass social organizations – by close examination of original archival documentation; oral and written primary sources; and government records.
A People's History of Europe
A People's History of Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A People's History of Europe write by Raquel Varela. This book was released on 2021. A People's History of Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A concise people's history of Europe spanning from the First World War to today
The Portuguese
The Portuguese - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Portuguese write by Barry Hatton. This book was released on 2016-01-06. The Portuguese available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portugal is an established member of the European Union, one of the founders of the euro currency and a founder member of NATO. Yet it is an inconspicuous and largely overlooked country on the continent's south-west rim. In the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Age of Discovery the Portuguese led Europe out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic and they brought Asia and Europe together. Evidence of their one-time four-continent empire can still be felt, not least in the Portuguese language which is spoken by more than 220 million people from Brazil, across parts of Africa to Asia. Analyzing present-day society and culture, The Portuguese also considers the nation's often tumultuous past. The 1755 Lisbon earthquake was one of Europe’s greatest natural disasters, strongly influencing continental thought and heralding Portugal’s extended decline. The Portuguese also weathered Europe’s longest dictatorship under twentieth-century ruler António Salazar. A 1974 military coup, called the Carnation Revolution, placed the Portuguese at the centre of Cold War attentions. Portugal’s quirky relationship with Spain, and with its oldest ally England, is also scrutinized. Portugal, which claims Europe’s oldest fixed borders, measures just 561 by 218 kilometres . Within that space, however, it offers a patchwork of widely differing and beautiful landscapes. With an easygoing and seductive lifestyle expressed most fully in their love of food, the Portuguese also have an anarchical streak evident in many facets of contemporary life. A veteran journalist and commentator on Portugal, the author paints an intimate portrait of a fascinating and at times contradictory country and its people.
