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 then 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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