The Making of Portuguese Democracy

by Kenneth Maxwell

Book Overview

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. After a vibrant account of the collapse of the old regime in 1974, it 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. International repercussions are examined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521460778
• ISBN13: 9780521460774
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"