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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “aurora almada e santos”
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  • The United Nations and Decolonization

    Edited by Nicole Eggers, Jessica Lynne Pearson, Aurora Almada e Santos ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    Differing interpretations of the history of the United Nations on the one hand conceive of it as an instrument to promote colonial interests while on the other emphasize its influence in facilitating self-determination for dependent territories. The authors in this book explore this dynamic in order to expand our understanding of both the achievements and the limits of international support for the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75

    International Exile and Solidarity

    Edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta, Aurora Almada e Santos ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book analyses the liberation struggles that took place in the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé e Príncipe during the second half of the twentieth century, highlighting how they unravelled and challenged colonialism in the international sphere. Activists established headquarters and training camps in various exile settings that were instrumental in ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • Amílcar Cabral and the PAIGC’s Binational Struggle for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde

    Edited by Víctor Barros, Aurora Almada e Santos ...
    Series series The Routledge Global 1960s and 1970s Series
    The struggle for independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde was shaped by a multiplicity of interactions and connections. Because of the intimate association between the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cabo Verde (PAIGC – Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) and Amílcar Cabral’s leadership, the existing scholarship has been discussing the fight led by the ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Cuba Since the Revolution of 1959

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  • The Portuguese Revolution

    State and Class in the Transition to Democracy

    by Ronald H. Chilcote ...
    Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring ... Read more

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  • Sovereign Emergencies

    Latin America and the Making of Global Human Rights Politics

    by Patrick William Kelly ...
    Series series Human Rights in History
    The concern over rising state violence, above all in Latin America, triggered an unprecedented turn to a global politics of human rights in the 1970s. Patrick William Kelly argues that Latin America played the most pivotal role in these sweeping changes, for it was both the target of human rights advocacy and the site of a series of significant developments for regional and global human rights ... Read more

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  • The Portuguese Far Right

    Between Late Authoritarianism and Democracy (1945-2015)

    by Riccardo Marchi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right
    The book discusses the far right in the contemporary Portugal (1945-2015) within three different periods: the end of the authoritarian regime of António de Oliveira Salazar (1945-1974), the transition to democracy after the coup d’état of April 25th (1974-1982) and the democratic regime until the present (1982-2015). The analysis focuses on political groups and parties, social movements, ... Read more

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  • Postcolonial People

    The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal

    by Christoph Kalter ...
    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 ... Read more

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  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

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  • Claim No Easy Victories

    The Legacy of Amílcar Cabral

    Edited by Firoze Manji, Bill Fletcher, Jr. ...
    On the centennial of Amílcar Cabral’s birth, and fifty years after his passing, Claim No Easy Victories brings to life the resonance of his thought for today’s freedom movements.*“Never has it been more certain that our victory depends principally on our own actions. Tell no lies, claim no easy victories . . .” —*Amílcar CabralWorld-renowned revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader ... Read more

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