Lisbon Rising: Urban Social Movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974-75

by Pedro Ramos Pinto

Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It is the first in-depth study of the widest urban movement of the European post-war period, an event that shook the balance of Cold War politics by threatening the possibility of revolution in Western Europe.

Using hitherto unknown sources produced by movement organisations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719085446
• ISBN13: 9780719085444
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"