Postcolonial People: The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal

by Christoph Kalter

Book Overview

Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108931596
• ISBN13: 9781108931595
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 379 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"