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

• Autore: Pinto Pe Ramos
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified] : , : Oxford University Press USA, , 2015; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Disciplina: 320.946909045
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Portugal Lisbon; Portugal; Portugal History Revolution, 1974
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Lisbon rising
• ISBN: 1-5261-0305-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910481042903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II