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On Guard Against the Red Menace
Anti-Communism in Brazil, 1917-1964
Inbunden, 2020
1902 kr
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This book focuses on the values, beliefs, fears and actions of Brazilian groups that throughout the twentieth century fought the red menace. It is based on broad and diversified documentary sources, including police files, archives of political leaders, traditional press periodicals, newspapers and …
Marcello Caetano and the Portuguese New State
A Political Biography
Häftad, 2021
1735 kr
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Prime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; …
From Lisbon to the World
Fernando Pessoas Enduring Literary Presence
Häftad, 2019
712 kr
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Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally becoming available in English translations, and more are in the process of reaching the literary public. Born in …
Frei Betto
The Political-Pastoral Work of a Dominican Friar in Brazil and Beyond
Av Americo Oscar Guichard Freire, Evanize Martins Sydow
Inbunden, 2020
2025 kr
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The Biography includes a Preface by Cuban Commander Fidel Castro Frei Bettos roles as a revolutionary Christian, popular educator, social movement articulator, and journalist/writer provide insight into the political and religious history not only of Brazil, but of Cuba and former socialist …
Frei Betto
The Political-Pastoral Work of a Dominican Friar in Brazil and Beyond
Av Americo Oscar Guichard Freire, Evanize Martins Sydow
Häftad, 2020
778 kr
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The Biography includes a Preface by Cuban Commander Fidel Castro Frei Bettos roles as a revolutionary Christian, popular educator, social movement articulator, and journalist/writer provide insight into the political and religious history not only of Brazil, but of Cuba and former socialist …
Portuguese Orientalism
The Interplay of Power, Representation and Dialogue in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Av Marta Pacheco Pinto, Catarina Apolinario de Almeida
Inbunden, 2020
1902 kr
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Research on Portuguese orientalism has been mostly centred on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and has focused on missionary work and Catholic orientalism. In contrast, reflection on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries is scarce and has relied on individual case studies, notwithstanding …
Portuguese at War
From the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
Häftad, 2020
676 kr
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From war campaigns to peacekeeping operations, The Portuguese at War presents an overview of the conflicts, wars and revolutions in which Portugal was involved from the nineteenth century to the present day. From the French invasions to the civil wars, from the African Empire to the wars of …
Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945
Burning Books, Awarding Writers
Häftad, 2021
676 kr
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This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods "new states" use to control communication through the written word can be …
Fernando Pessoa
A Critical Introduction
Inbunden, 2020
2194 kr
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A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A …
Brazilian Revolution of 1930
The Legacy of Getúlio Vargas Revisited
Av Luciano Aronne de Abreu, Marco Aurélio Vannucchi
Häftad, 2021
1019 kr
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The third of October 2020 marked the 90th anniversary of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. Although this event is recognized in Brazilian historiography as an important landmark in the construction of contemporary Brazil, debate, discourse and indeed publications commemorating the event have been …
Global History of Portugal
From Pre-History to the Modern World
Av Carlos Fiolhais, José Eduardo Franco m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1958 kr
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For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, …
Global History of Portugal
From Pre-History to the Modern World
Av Carlos Fiolhais, José Eduardo Franco m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
754 kr
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For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, …
Portuguese Economic Development and External Funding in the Modern Era
Av Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, Alice Cunha
Inbunden, 2021
1958 kr
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After World War II, with the triumph of multilateralism, several international organizations were created, including two which would be of special importance for the external funding of the Portuguese economy in the second half of the twentieth century and in the early twenty-first. The European …
Fernando Pessoa
A Critical Introduction
Häftad, 2021
755 kr
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A Critical Introduction proposes a new didactic and dynamic way of reading the great twentieth-century poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The aim is to present a holistic vision of this complex poet, promoting his literary geniality in order to better understand his orthonymic-heteronymic poetry. A …
Present Past
The Brazilian Military Dictatorship and the 1964 Coup
Häftad, 2022
907 kr
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The events related to the 1964 coup and the military dictatorship (1964-85) have become common currency in the recent public debate in Brazil. The issue is especially strategic to the extreme right-wing groups surrounding Jair Bolsonaro, the president elected in 2018. For them, the 1964 coup is …
On Guard Against the Red Menace
Anti-Communism in Brazil, 1917-1964
Häftad, 2022
654 kr
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This book focuses on the values, beliefs, fears and actions of Brazilian groups that throughout the twentieth century fought the red menace. It is based on broad and diversified documentary sources, including police files, archives of political leaders, traditional press periodicals, newspapers and …
Portuguese Revolution of 1974-1975
An Unexpected Path to Democracy
Häftad, 2023
1063 kr
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Portugal is close to celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution. While this central moment in contemporary Portuguese history has long attracted international academic interest, there is a dearth of studies that explain the interrelationships between the main issues that singled …
Portuguese Colonialism and Islam
Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction
Häftad, 2023
985 kr
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In Mozambique and Guinea, the Portuguese colonial administration had to deal with Muslim communities of significant population expression and whose internal cultural differentiations presented a complexity to which the administrative power was often unprepared. The exercise of this governance, with …
After the Carnations: Social Movements in Portugal Since the 25 April 1974 Revolution
Av Daniela Melo, Daniela F. Melo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2232 kr
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The Portuguese revolution of April 25, 1974, has drawn much well-deserved scholarly attention: it offers an innovative example of a leftist military-led revolutionary process that unexpectedly resulted in the transition to a West European-style social democracy. Although much of the existing …
The Contradictions of Science in Machado de Assis
Av Viviane Carvalho da Annunciação
Inbunden, 2025
2492 kr
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This book explores the role of science in the short stories of Machado de Assis, focusing on works such as ‘O Alienista’ (1882), ‘A Sereníssima República’ (1882), and ‘Idéias de Canário’ (1899). It examines how Machado uses scientific theories as literary and sociological devices to critique modern …
Inequality in the Portuguese-Speaking World
Global & Historical Perspectives
Inbunden, 2018
1965 kr
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Global social inequality has declined over the past 100 years and the gap between different parts of the world, measured by average lifespan, has narrowed. The internal gap between wealthy and poor in the western world has likewise reduced, from the 1930s to the 1970s, although not in a linear way. …
Lusophone World
The Evolution of Portuguese National Narratives
Av Sarah Ashby
Inbunden, 2017
1908 kr
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Portugal's European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former good student of European democracy? The answer …
Lusophone World
The Evolution of Portuguese National Narratives
Av Sarah Ashby
Häftad, 2017
599 kr
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Portugal's European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former good student of European democracy? The answer …
Politics of Representation
Elections and Parliamentarism in Portugal and Spain, 1875-1926
Av Pedro Tavares de Almeida, Javier Moreno-Luzon
Inbunden, 2017
1965 kr
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Electoral and parliamentary arenas play a crucial role in the configuration and dynamics of modern polities. This book explores the practices of citizenship and unveils the fabric of representation in the Iberian countries, during a significant period of liberal politics, that is, from its apogee …
Marcello Caetano and the Portuguese New State
A Political Biography
Inbunden, 2018
2025 kr
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Prime Minister Marcello Caetano was the successor of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Considered the second most important figure of the Portuguese dictatorship (the Estado Novo regime, 1933-1974), Caetano has generated considerable disagreement amongst scholars with regard to his persona and politics; …
First Portuguese Republic
Between Liberalism and Democracy (1910-1926)
Inbunden, 2019
1965 kr
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The first Portuguese Republic stood between 1910 and 1926. A characteristic of the Republican period was the strong civil participation, particularly by the urban population. Freedom of press and of association became constitutional rights and incentivized a powerful and very diversified …
From Lisbon to the World
Fernando Pessoas Enduring Literary Presence
Inbunden, 2018
2194 kr
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Fernando Pessoa is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Until some years ago known in the English-speaking world only among a minority of connaisseurs, his work is finally becoming available in English translations, and more are in the process of reaching the literary public. Born in …
Locusts
British Critics of Portugal before the First World War
Av Gary Thorn
Inbunden, 2019
1965 kr
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The book title comes from Aubrey Bells Portugal of the Portuguese (1916): Since the murder of King Carlos and of the Crown Prince Luis Felipe on the 1st of February 1908. A swarm of writers have descended like locusts on the land The methodology is to connect a specific group of critics in the …
Eruption of Insular Identities
A Comparative Study of Azorean and Cape Verdean Prose
Inbunden, 2020
2194 kr
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The Eruption of Insular Identities explores themes common to the literatures of the Azores and Cape Verde, two isolated archipelagos in the former Portuguese empire but contemporaneously in the Portuguese-speaking world. In the 1930s, writers from both archipelagoes initiated projects to explore …
Embracing the Past, Designing the Future
Authoritarianism and Economic Development in Brazil Under Getúlio Vargas
Av Luciano Aronne de Abreu, Luis Carlos dos Passos Martins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1965 kr
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Embracing the Past, Designing the Future provides an historical overview of Brazilian authoritarianism and social/economic development during the political era (1930-45) of Getulio Vargas as viewed and understood by Oliveira Viana and Azevedo Amaral, two of the principal intellectuals and …
