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Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique
This book brings together new research on nations and nationalism in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. It provides original case studies as well as a theoretical discussion on the subject.
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Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Portugal made great efforts to tie its territories together, but the Luso-Brazilian empire eventually succumbed to revolution like its British, French and Spanish counterparts. This book reveals the links and relationships between Portugal and Brazil that survived the demise of empire and shaped the trajectories of the two countries.
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Lusophone Africa
Lusophone Africa is a study of the contemporary cultural production of Portuguese-speaking Africa and its critical engagement with globalization in the aftermath of colonialism, especially since the advent of multiparty politics and market-oriented economies. Fernando Arenas puts forth a conceptual framework for understanding, for the first time, recent cultural and historical developments in Portuguese-speaking Africa.
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Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.
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Postcolonial perspectives on the cultures of Latin America and lusophone Africa
This volume surveys the range of texts, authors and topics from the literary and non-literary cultures of Latin America and Lusophone Africa, adopting a set of perspectives that are grounded in the discipline of postcolonial studies. Using comparative and contrastive methods, Postcolonial Perspectives reinterprets cultural landmarks and traditions of Latin America and Lusophone Africa.
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António de Spínola and the International Context of Portuguese Decolonization
When he became the leading figure in Portuguese politics, after the military coup of April 25, 1974, General António de Spínola's plan for the resolution of Portugal's conundrum in Africa was not very far from what he had written a few months before in his famous Portugal e o Futuro. In this book, the former Commander-in-Chief in Portuguese Guinea argued Portuguese wars in Africa, after 13 years, could not be won by military means and Portugal should evolve towards a \"Federation of States\" or a \"Lusitanian Community.\" Each of the major Portuguese colonies in Africa -Angola, Mozambique and Guinea - should follow a process of self-determination. According to Spínola, this process of self-determination should not be equivalent to immediate independence and to a pure and simple transfer of power to the liberation movements that had fought against Portuguese rule in Africa. Self-determination was supposed to mean a choice between several options. Spínola favored the creation and the development of political groups in Guinea, Mozambique and Angola defending options other than independence. Even after the coup in Lisbon, the new Portuguese President refused to recognize PAIGC, Frelimo or even the three Angolan movements as the sole legitimate representatives of the peoples in their territories, as the United Nations had already done in the early 1970s.
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The last empire
This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonisation, which was then 25 years old, and the effects of this on the Portuguese themselves. For over one century, the Portuguese state had defined its foreign policy on the basis of its vast empire this was the root of its 'Atlanticist' vision. The outbreak of war of liberation in its African territories, which were prompted by the new international support for self determination in colonised territories, was a serious threat that undermined the very foundations of the Portuguese state. This book examines the nature of this threat, how the Portuguese state initially attempted to overcome it by force, and how new pressures within Portuguese society were given space to emerge as a consequence of the colonial wars. This is the first book that takes a multidisciplinary look at both the causes and the consequences of Portuguese decolonisation and is the only one that places the loss of Portugal's Eastern Empire in the context of the loss of its African Empire. Furthermore, it is the only English language book that relates the process of Portuguese decolonisation with the search for a new Portuguese vision of its place in the world. This book is intended for anyone who is interested in regime change, decolonisation, political revolutions and the growth and development of the European Union. It will also be useful for those who are interested in contemporary developments in civil society and state ideologies. Given that a large part of the book is dedicated to the process of change in the
various countries of the former Portuguese Empire, it will also be of interest to students of Africa. It will be useful to those who study decolonisation processes within the other former European Empires, as it provides comparative detail. The book will be most useful to academic researchers and students of comparative politics and area studies.
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Portugal-Africa: 30 Years After the Carnation Revolution
In 1974, a revolution that changed the structure and nature of Portuguese society and ended that country's long and costly wars in Africa was named after a flower. Grundy recounts the events during the Carnation Revolution, a peaceful revolution that led a series of far-reaching reforms throughout Central and Southern Africa.
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