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The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world. This collection goes beyond the limits of national history to locate the revolution at the intersection of transnational historical phenomena such as the long 1960s, the Cold War, the emergence of the 'Third World' and postwar modernization.

Foregrounding the complex geographies and chronologies of semi-peripheral Portugal, this book combines its status as the centre of a global Empire with its subaltern position in Europe. Offering a new, global, approach to this still understudied event, chapters explore transnational socialist and grassroots forms of solidarity, processes of global communication and Cultural Revolution, decolonization, feminism, and socio-economic transformations to offer a non-Eurocentric global history from within Europe itself.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rediscovering the global in the Portuguese Revolution - Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, Luís Trindade, and Pedro Ramos Pinto (New University of Lisbon, Portugal and University of Cambridge UK)
Section I. Making a Revolution in an Age of Revolutions
1. 'Only technically European': the Portuguese Revolution and the spectre of the Third World – Rita Lucas Narra (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
2. South by Southwest: Global Socialism and the Political Economy of the Portuguese Revolution (1974-1975) – Ricardo Noronha (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
3. Cuba and the Portuguese Revolution: affinities, proximities, ruptures – Raquel Ribeiro (University of Edinburgh, UK)
4. Last hopes: the Portuguese Revolution and the crisis of the revolutionary left in the 1970s – Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge, UK)
Section II. Revolutionary Subjectivities
5. Portuguese Women during the Carnation Revolution: national context and global connections – Giulia Strippoli (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
6. 'The Freest Country in the World': The Portuguese Revolution and the deep history of emancipation – Luís Trindade (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
7. The contained and retained sexual revolution – Isabel Freire (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Section III. Between Global Cold War and Decolonisation
8. The colonial war and the end of Portuguese colonialism: trajectories and impacts – Miguel Cardina (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
9. 'We have with us the majority of the countries of the world': Portugal and the New Information and Communication Order – Rita Luís (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10. European Social Democracy and the Portuguese Revolution: a two-way influence – Alan Granadino (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
11. Momentous but unexceptional: writing the returnees back into the Portuguese Revolution – Christoph Kalter (University of Agder, Norway)
Afterword: The Portuguese Revolution: Highpoint and Endpoint of a Transnational Mobilization Cycle (1956-1976) – Gerd-Rainer Horn (SciencesPo, Paris, France)

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Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published Jun 12 2025
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 264
ISBN 9781350498686
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 10 bw illus
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Luís Trindade

Luís Trindade is Assistant Professor in Contempora…

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Rita Lucas Narra

Rita Lucas Narra is a PhD candidate at Instituto d…

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Ricardo Noronha

Ricardo Noronha is Researcher at Instituto de Hist…

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Pedro Ramos Pinto

Pedro Ramos Pinto is Associate Professor in Intern…

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