1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455826103321

Titolo

The last empire [[electronic resource] ] : thirty years of portuguese decolonization / / edited by Stewart Lloyd-Jones and Antonio Costa Pinto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol ; ; Portland, : Intellect, 2003

ISBN

1-280-47690-7

9786610476909

1-84150-897-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

Lloyd-JonesStewart

PintoAntónio Costa

Disciplina

946.9044

Soggetti

Decolonization - Portugal

Electronic books.

Europe Colonies History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Pages; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; 1:The influence of overseas issues in Portugal's transition to democracy; 2:The transition to democracy and Portugal's decolonization; 3: São Tomé and Príncipe: decolonization and its legacy, 1974-90; 4: Macau,Timor and Portuguese India in the context of Portugal's recent decolonization; 5: Portugal and the CPLP: heightened expectations, unfounded disillusions; 6:What good is Portugal to an African?; 7: Portugal's lusophone African immigrants: colonial legacy in a contemporary labour market; 8: Portugal, Africa and the future

9:The empire is dead, long live the EUBibliography

Sommario/riassunto

This book is the result of a conference organised by the Contemporary Portuguese Political History Research Centre (CPHRC) and the University of Dundee that took place during September 2000. The purpose of this conference, and the resulting book, was to bring together various experts in the field to analyse and debate the process of Portuguese decolonisation, which was then 25 years old, and the effects of this on the Portuguese themselves. For over one century, the Portuguese state



had defined its foreign policy on the basis of its vast empire &endash; this was the root of its 'Atlanticist' v

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910148632703321

Autore

Graudin Ryan

Titolo

Blood for blood / / Ryan Graudin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Little, Brown and Company, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

0-316-40514-0

0-316-40513-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (390 pages)

Collana

Wolf by Wolf

Disciplina

813.6

Soggetti

Government, Resistance to

Nazis

Jews

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- WELCOME -- DEDICATION -- EPIGRAPH -- PRELUDE: THREE PORTRAITS OF CHRISTMAS EVE 1945 -- I -- II -- III -- PART I: EXODUS -- CHAPTER 1 -- CHAPTER 2 -- CHAPTER 3 -- CHAPTER 4 -- CHAPTER 5 -- CHAPTER 6 -- CHAPTER 7 -- CHAPTER 8 -- CHAPTER 9 -- CHAPTER 10 -- CHAPTER 11 -- CHAPTER 12 -- INTERLUDE: THREE PORTRAITS OF MAY 16, 1952 -- BEFORE -- DURING -- AFTER -- PART II: THE WILDERNESS -- CHAPTER 13 -- CHAPTER 14 -- CHAPTER 15 -- CHAPTER 16 -- CHAPTER 17 -- CHAPTER 18 -- CHAPTER 19 -- CHAPTER 20 -- CHAPTER 21 -- CHAPTER 22 -- CHAPTER 23 -- CHAPTER 24 -- CHAPTER 25 -- CHAPTER 26 -- CHAPTER 27 -- CHAPTER 28 -- INTERLUDE: THREE PORTRAITS OF APRIL 2, 1955 -- I -- II -- III -- PART III: LAND OF ASHES -- CHAPTER 29 -- CHAPTER 30 -- CHAPTER 31 -- CHAPTER 32 -- CHAPTER 33 -- CHAPTER 34 -- CHAPTER 35 -- CHAPTER 36 -- CHAPTER 37 -- CHAPTER 38 -- CHAPTER 39 -- CHAPTER 40 -- CHAPTER 41 -- CHAPTER 42 -- CHAPTER 43 -- CHAPTER 44 -- CHAPTER 45 --



CHAPTER 46 -- CHAPTER 47 -- CHAPTER 48 -- CHAPTER 49 -- CHAPTER 50 -- CHAPTER 51 -- CHAPTER 52 -- CHAPTER 53 -- CHAPTER 54 -- CHAPTER 55 -- PART IV: LAND OF PROMISE -- CHAPTER 56 -- CHAPTER 57 -- CHAPTER 58 -- CHAPTER 59 -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- PRAISE FOR WOLF BY WOLF AND BLOOD FOR BLOOD -- A SNEAK PEEK OF "INVICTUS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- COPYRIGHT.

Sommario/riassunto

In this alternate version of the 1950s, after the Axis powers win World War II, Yael, a Jewish skinshifter, fails in her mission to kill Hitler and finds herself being hunted while trying to finish what she started.