Global Histories of the Portuguese Revolution - by Luís Trindade & Rita Lucas Narra & Ricardo Noronha & Pedro Ramos Pinto (Hardcover)

About the Book

Book Synopsis

The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world. This collection goes beyond the limits of national history to locate the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena such as the long 1960s, the Cold War, the emergence of the 'Third World' and postwar modernization.

Foregrounding the complex geographies and chronologies of semi-peripheral Portugal, this book combines its status as the centre of a global Empire with its subaltern position in Europe. Offering a new, global, approach to this still understudied event, chapters explore transnational socialist and grassroots forms of solidarity, processes of global communication and Cultural Revolution, decolonization, feminism, and socio-economic transformations to offer a non-Eurocentric global history from within Europe itself.

Review Quotes

"This book will change the way historians think about Portuguese revolution by highlighting its interconnectedness and contribution to global processes. It will also show how the (largely unfulfilled) promise of the Portuguese revolution affected the New Left across Europe." --Natalia Telepneva, Lecturer in History, University of Strathclyde, UK

"Cutting-edge Portuguese scholars present a robust and innovative transnational perspective on the Portuguese Revolution, challenging the narratives of centre-periphery relations, Cold War and decolonisation." --Diego Palacios Cerezales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

About the Author

Luís Trindade is Assistant Professor in Contemporary History at University of Coimbra, Portugal where he is also vice-coordinator of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies. Between 2007 and 2019 he taught at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, and he has published on the histories of Marxism, cinema and mass culture in twentieth century Portugal.

Rita Lucas Narra is a PhD candidate at Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal. Her research focuses on the formation of the idea of the Third World, and its perception in Portugal during the second half of the 20th century.

Ricardo Noronha is Researcher at Instituto de História Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal. After researching on the development of a Neoliberal intellectual field in Portugal during the last quarter of the Twentieth Century, he is currently working on the topic of economic planning between 1945 and 1980.

Pedro Ramos Pinto is Associate Professor in International Economic History at the University of Cambridge, UK. He is the author of Lisbon Rising: Urban Social Movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974-1975, as well as a number of publications on the topics of protest and social mobilisation in Portugal before, during and since the Revolution.