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Record Nr.

UNINA9910481042903321

Autore

Pinto Pe Ramos

Titolo

Lisbon rising : Urban social movements in the Portuguese Revolution, 1974–75

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : Oxford University Press USA, , 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2015

ISBN

1-5261-0305-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Disciplina

320.946909045

Soggetti

HISTORY / Europe / Spain & Portugal

Social movements

Democratization

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

Democratization - Portugal - History - 20th century

Social movements - Portugal - Lisbon - History - 20th century

History

Electronic books.

Portugal Lisbon

Portugal

Portugal History Revolution, 1974

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover ; Lisbon rising; Contents; List of Figures and tables ; Preface ; Abbreviations ; 1 Introduction: the Carnation Revolution revisited; 2 The New State and the transformation of urban citizenship, 1926-74; 3 From rights to action: April to December 1974; 4 Building a movement: September 1974 to June 1975; 5 The street and the ballot box: June to November 1975; 6 Urban social movements and the making of Portuguese  democracy; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Lisbon rising explores the role of a widespread urban social movement



in the revolutionary process that accompanied Portugal's transition from authoritarianism to democracy. It is the first in-depth study of the widest urban movement of the European post-war period, an event that shook the balance of Cold War politics by threatening the possibility of revolution in Western Europe. Using hitherto unknown sources produced by movement organisations themselves, it challenges long-established views of civil society in Southern Europe as weak, arguing that popular movements had an important and auto