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035 $a(OCoLC)on1047652853
040 $aLBSOR/DLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dUKMGB$dYDX
020 $a9781845199616$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
020 $a1845199618$qhardcover$qalkaline paper
035 $a(OCoLC)1047652853
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050 00 $aDP557.P47$bT47 2019
082 00 $a327.469041/0904$223
100 1 $aThorn, Gary,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe locusts :$bBritish critics of Portugal before the First World War /$cGary Thorn.
264 1 $aEastbourne ;$aChicago :$bSussex Academic Press,$c2019.
300 $axv, 324 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aThe Portuguese-speaking world: its history, politics and culture
520 $aThe book title comes from Aubrey Bell's Portugal of the Portuguese (1916): 'Since the murder of King Carlos and of the Crown Prince Luis Felipe on the 1st of February 1908.... A swarm of writers have descended like locusts on the land...' The methodology is to connect a specific group of critics in the years before the First World War to a constellation of general attitudes about Portugal and the Portuguese-speaking world. Intersecting personal narratives are used, not as an argument for individual agency as dominant cause of historical change, but as contrasting discourses upon revisited events. The primary focus is to explain how the critical context of Portugal's history that incubated 'The Locusts' crystalised into the pressure group to free political prisoners. A key part of that context was the extant campaign against 'Portuguese slavery' in West Africa. E. M. Tenison, the Secretary of the British Protest Committee, left a unique 200-page unpublished personal memoir, previously unconsulted by any published historian. The historiography of the First Republic in English is slight. There are no comparative studies in book form, just a few scholarly articles on diplomacy alone (for example. by Glyn Stone, Richard Langhorne). And likewise, there is no study of Anglo-Portuguese relations 'from below', i.e. popular pressure to influence government policy. British Critics of Portugal before the First World War problematises Anglo-Portuguese relations around the concept forwarded by Amilcar Cabral, and others, that Portuguese colonialism was 'the colonialism of the semi-colonised'. It makes a broader contribution to the study of empires, and to the causes of the First World War in Anglo-Portuguese-German relations.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $a"Descending like locusts" : Britain and the First Portuguese Republic -- Reporting the revolution -- Changing places : King Manuel into exile -- The Catholic -- The disgruntled royalist -- The lusophile -- The secretary -- The duchess -- Captives, campaigners and citizens -- The Portuguese pimpernel -- The missionary -- Conclusion.
651 0 $aPortugal$xForeign public opinion, British.
651 0 $aPortugal$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zPortugal$xHistory$y20th century.
651 0 $aPortugal$xHistory$y1910-1974.
650 7 $aPublic opinion, British.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01354095
651 7 $aGreat Britain.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01204623
651 7 $aPortugal.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01208476
648 7 $a1900-1999$2fast
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
830 0 $aPortuguese-speaking world (Series)
852 00 $bglx$hDP557.P47$iT47 2019