Download or read book The memoirs of general Delgado written by Humberto Delgado and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Memoirs of General Delgado written by Humberto da Silva Delgado and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Portugal written by Douglas L. Wheeler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-05-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Historical Dictionary of Portugal greatly expands on the second edition through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on important persons, places, events, and institutions, as well as on significant political, economic, social, and cultural aspects.
Download or read book Empire in Africa written by David Birmingham and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans or those experienced by Angola’s neighbors in the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, or the Dutch colonies at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Transvaal. David Birmingham takes the reader through Angola’s troubled past, which included endemic warfare for the first twenty-five years of independence, and examines the fact that in the absence of a viable neocolonial referee such as Britain or France, the warring parties turned to Cold War superpowers for a supply of guns. For a decade Angola replaced Vietnam as a field in which an international war by proxy was conducted. Empire in Africa explains how this African nation went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.
Download or read book The Oldest Ally written by Glyn Stone and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-crafted, eloquently written, and its arguments about the primacy of strategy in British diplomatic thinking compelling. Breaks new historiographical ground. ALBION An account of British/Portuguese diplomatic relations between 1936 and 1941.
Download or read book Salazar written by Filipe Ribeiro De Meneses and published by Enigma Books. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only complete political biography by a major Portuguese historian.
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Download or read book Area Handbook for Portugal written by Eugene K. Keefe and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General study of Portugal - covers economic structure, social structure, the political system, demographic aspects and geographical aspects, the historical setting, living conditions, education, culture, religion, agriculture, industry, trade, national defence, the administration of justice, etc. Bibliography pp. 411 to 435, diagrams, graphs, maps and statistical tables.
Download or read book Memoirs of General Miller in the Service of the Republic of Peru written by John Miller (biographer.) and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Frontier of Loyalty written by Yossi Shain and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback edition of the pathbreaking book on the role of exiles in international relations, with a new foreword (including material on the war in Iraq). "In a world increasingly shaped by transnational organizations and processes, this is a timely and welcome subject, and Yossi Shain provides an informative overview." --Rogers Brubaker, Harvard University, in The American Journal of Sociology "Engrossing." --International Affairs "Mr. Shain is at his best stitching together information that hitherto had not been systematically related to analytical themes. . . . A major contribution to understanding the patterns and complexities of the politics of those at home abroad." --International Migration Review "The Frontier of Loyalty is the first comprehensive and theoretically oriented study of exile politics; the types of exile activity; the relation to both the home and host governments; and the difficulties and ambiguities of exile politics, particularly the struggle for legitimacy as spokesman for the opposition at home and for recognition from the outside." --- Juan J. Linz, Yale University "An ingenious and sensitive analysis of political exiles as 'voice from without,' which contributes to our understanding of the transnational character of contemporary politics." --- Aristide R. Zolberg, New School for Social Research "Drawing upon a wide literature on contemporary political exiles, Yossi Shain presents a sophisticated, learned and sensible survey of their place in political life today. More important, his meditation on the role of exiles proves such essential political categories as legitimacy, national loyalty, and opposition in the modern state. One test of any work of scholarship is whether it enhances our understanding of concepts that we have previously taken for granted. By this measure, Shain's book passes with flying colors." --- Michael R. Marrus, University of Toronto
Download or read book Memoirs of General William Miller in the service of the Republic of Peru written by John Miller (Brother of General William Miller.) and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Portugal written by Lawrence S. Graham and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite worldwide interest in the Portuguese Revolution of 1974, Portugal remained for most people a little known and poorly understood country, neglected for years by social scientists. Editors Graham and Makler brought together for the first time in one substantive volume most of the leading social science experts on Portugal. The contributors' highly original research represents the best work generated by the International Conference Group on Modern Portugal at its two major conferences held in 1973 and 1976. The result is a comprehensive collection of essays discussing in detail the events leading up to the revolution, the causes of the military coup, and the movement of a society on the brink of revolutionary upheaval toward open, democratic parliamentary elections. As the first interdisciplinary study to span fifty years of Portuguese history from the Estado Novo of 1926 to the eventual social democratic republic, this book stands alone in its field. The specialist as well as the general reader will find insights into the dynamics of Portugal's people, politics, and economics.
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Download or read book Republican Portugal written by Douglas L. Wheeler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-08-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
