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Salazar: A Political Biography is the definitive biography of the longstanding Portuguese dictator. António de Oliveira Salazar entered the government of Portugal when Herbert Hoover was president and ended his political career at the end of the Johnson administration. He remained in power for forty years (1928–1968), one of the longest tenures in modern history. Unlike the other ‘great dictators’ of the twentieth century, Salazar, an academic, immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate until illness forced his retirement. He successfully managed his country’s finances despite the impact of the Great Depression, imposing a h...
The only complete political biography by a major Portuguese historian.
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Throughout this anthropological history, Radding presents multilayered meanings of culture, community, and ecology, and discusses both the colonial policies to which peasant communities were subjected and the responses they developed to adapt and resist them.
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Stories is a collection of twelve stories, some of which received literary awards following their original publication in Spanish. In this book, the reader is invited by the author, José A. Valentino, to re-visit many scenarios of powerful emotions, some of them imaginary, some of them experienced by him while traveling throughout Latin America as a troubadour, guitarist-singer... In Stories, there are stories of love, intrigue, mystery, science fiction, music, and, yes, racial discrimination in many of its most cruel manifestations.