People's History of Portugal

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Häftad, Engelska, 2026

Av Raquel Varela, Roberto della Santa, Roberto Della Santa, Andy Daglish

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A People's History of Portugal reconstructs the last two hundred years of class struggle in Portugal. Raquel Varela and Roberto della Santa examine the material conditions of its people – examining the real causes of the revolutionary waves and counter-revolutionary backlash.Starting in the early nineteenth century, the theme of colonialism and its antithesis runs through the narrative, as working-class life was closely entwined with Portuguese colonial exploitation. Despite relatively slow industrial development, Portuguese people spearheaded a surprisingly vigorous radical culture of dissent, eventually sparking a social and political revolution in 1974.More recently, Portugal’s inclusion in the European Union has put its people in a neoliberal stranglehold that stifles democracy to this day. Are the working people of Portugal able to carry the memory of the revolutionary past into its future? This is a history of, and for, the people.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-20
Mått140 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePeople's History
Antal sidor256
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745351605
ÖversättareDaglish de Almeida, Ana

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Raquel Varela is a Portuguese labour historian, researcher, and professor at New University of Lisbon, and Honorary Fellow at the International Institute for Social History. She is President of the Observatory of Labour and Living Conditions and a member of the executive board of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts and co-editor of its journal. She is the author of A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution, A People's History of Europe, and the graphic novel Utopia, with Robson Villalba.Roberto della Santa is a Brazilian professor, social scientist, and researcher at the Center for Global Studies of the Universidade Aberta de Lisboa, and Co-Coordinator at the Observatory for Living and Working Conditions. For the 50th anniversary of the Portuguese Revolution, he co-wrote with the Kairós Collective a series of five historical documentaries on the World of Work for RTP3 public television.