This authoritative study provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the current political, economic, and social situation in Portugal. In his introduction, Maxwell reviews the revolutionary changes of the past ten years. Several authors address the international issues, examining the nature and possible future direction of Portugal's foreign relations in general and her involvements with Spain, Africa, and Western Europe in particular. The potential benefits and disadvantages of Portugal's entry into the European Community are discussed, and the political and economic implications of Portugal's emergence as an important European power are considered. The difficult process of developing democratic institutions in a country beset by resistant social, political, and economic problems is analyzed from various perspectives. The constraints on Portugal's economy are carefully assessed. A chapter on social crisis and the state investigates the complex structure of state/society relationships and how they are affected by political polarization, severe socioeconomic inequalities, and high levels of poverty and illiteracy. Former Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemao offers an inside look at the functioning of the political system and weighs prospects for the success and long term survival of democratic government in Portugal.

Portugal in the 1980s: Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation (Contributions in Political Science)

History

Maxwell, Kenneth

Europe

Praeger

Naked tropics (New World in the Atlantic World)

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (New World in the Atlantic World)

Americas

Routledge

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Literature & Fiction

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Conflicts and Conspiracies

This is the first major study in English for over half a century of one of Portugal's most important historical figures, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, marquês de Pombal (1699-1782). He is best known today as the key figure in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the devastating earthquake of 1755. Pombal's achievements however went far beyond the reconstruction of the capital. An unusually single-minded and ruthless first minister, he was also one of the eighteenth century's most successful 'enlightened despots': for example, he reformed the Portugese system of education, began the process whereby the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal after their suppression by the Pope in 1773, and mounted a formidable challenge to British commercial hegemony in Portugal. Recent renewed interest in the theory of enlightened absolutism has tended to ignore developments in the Iberian peninsula. This book is therefore essential to a full understanding of the complexities and paradoxes of enlightened rulership in a southern European context.

Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment

Cambridge University Press

The Making of Portuguese Democracy

This vividly-written book is the first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal to be placed in a broad international historical context. After a vibrant account of the collapse of the old regime in 1974, it studies the complex revolutionary period that followed, and the struggle in Europe and Africa to define the future role of Europe's then poorest country. International repercussions are examined and comparisons are drawn with the more general collapse of communism in the late 1980s.

This vividly-written book is the first comprehensive assessment of the origins of the present-day democratic regime in Portugal to be placed in a broad international historical context. After a vibrant account of the collapse of the old regime in 1974, it studies the complex revolutionary period that followed, and the struggle in Europe and Africa to define the future role of Europe's then poorest country. International repercussions are examined and comparisons are drawn with the more general collapse of communism in the late 1980s.

Analyzes the Spanish government's foreign policy and reform of the military since the death of Franco in 1975. The four papers were developed through a series of meetings in Spain and the US. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Spanish Foreign And Defense Policy

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Westview Press

An entertaining, wide-ranging survey of sexuality through the ages sifts through the sexual lore and literature of the past, traces the rapidly changing sexual mores of today, and exposes the sexual practices of history's great lovers. Reprint.

A Sexual Odyssey

Self-Help

Tarcher

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Portugal in the 1980s: Dilemmas of Democratic Consolidation (Contributions in Political Science)

Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (New World in the Atlantic World)

Naked tropics (New World in the Atlantic World)

Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808

Conflicts and Conspiracies

Pombal, Paradox of the Enlightenment

The Making of Portuguese Democracy

The Making of Portuguese Democracy

Spanish Foreign And Defense Policy

A Sexual Odyssey