
Out of the Shadows
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'Lisbon and Portugal's best days are behind them' is a common theme put forward by writers who focus their attention on the golden era of Portuguese discoveries, the Empire and the role of Lisbon as a major Atlantic power. Neill Lochery's book demonstrates that Portugal is not suffering from such inevitable decline.
In 1974 a dramatic overnight coup led to the fall of the 'Estado Novo' dictatorship in Portugal - in Lisbon the events became known as the Carnation Revolution. As the colonies collapsed, the United States helped airlift 13,000 refugees from Angola back to Portugal as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger maneuvered to advance the moderate side of the government in Lisbon over the radicals and thus guarantee US interests.
As Neill Lochery argues, one of the major misunderstandings of the post-revolution era in Portugal has been the concentration on domestic over international factors in helping to shape its story. Having emerged from its twentieth century financial crisis and bail out and thus 'out of the shadows', he argues that Portugal is a country of huge relevance to the present day and of great future significance to the European continent.
Indeed, the strengthening of bonds between Portugal and its European neighbours can be seen to be more important than ever, given the heightened tensions in European politics, the refugee crisis and the prospect of a changing European Union.
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Prologue
PART 1: CHILDREN OF THE REVOLUTION
1 Revolution
2 Wish You Were Here
3 SOS
4 In the City
PART 2: SAFE EUROPEAN HOME
5 Trans-Europe Express
6 Picture This
7 London Calling
8 The Eternal
PART THREE: MAD WORLD
9 Ghost Town
10 This is the Day
11 What Difference Does is Make?
12 Road to Nowhere
PART FOUR: ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS
13 Holding Back the Years
14 With or Without You
15 All Around the World
PART FIVE: FIELDS OF GOLD
16 Wicked Game
17 Under the Bridge
18 Fake Plastic Trees
19 Don't Look Back in Anger
PART SIX: NO SURPRISES
20 Overload
21 Hurt
22 Fix You
23 Chasing Cars
PART SEVEN: CRUEL WORLD
24 Hometown Glory
25 Love the Way You lie
26 Blame
Epilogue
Notes
Notes on Sources
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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