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Salazar: A Political Biography Paperback – November 1, 2009. by de Meneses, Filipe (Author). Back in my college days, I took a class on European colonialism, and Antonio de Oliviera Salazar, though only briefly discussed, was intriguing to me since he led the poorest of the colonial powers yet held onto his nation's colonies long after greater powers- such as the United Kingdom and France -had given up on the imperial concept.

Until this book by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, a Portuguese historian at National University of Ireland at Maynooth, professional historians did not venture to produce a biography of Salazar

Until this book by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses, a Portuguese historian at National University of Ireland at Maynooth, professional historians did not venture to produce a biography of Salazar. Meneses's book is, therefore, a courageous effort and a successful one. The book, as the author acknowledges, reflects the remarkable development, since the 1990s, of the historiography on Salazar's regime - the New State - that allowed us to have a deeper understanding of the politics, society, economy and even the culture of Salazar's Portugal. This scholarship, recognizes Meneses, helped.

The only complete political biography by a major Portuguese historian. Common terms and phrases.

Meneses, Filipe (2009). Salazar: A Political Biography. Salazar and modern Portugal (1970) online. Salazar: A Political Biography (2009). p. 544. ISBN 978-1929631902. Payne, Stanley G. A History of Spain and Portugal (2 vol 1973) full text online vol 2 after 1700; standard scholarly history; chapter 27 pp. 663–683. Pimentel, Irene (2002).

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses tem em "Salazar" uma prova de fogo do seu talento enquanto historiador e investigador. Mais de 800 páginas que retratam a vida do ditador desde o nascimento até à morte, em 1970. Porém a vida privada de Salazar pouco entra nas contas do biógrafo, que se interessa mais pela figura do professor de Coimbra a partir da sua entrada na vida política activa, primeiro enquanto deputado; a partir de 1928 enquanto Ministro das Finanças

ISBN 10: 1929631901 ISBN 13: 9781929631902. Publisher: Enigma Books, 2009. Antonio 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.

With a Preface by D. Miguel de Paiva Couceiro. Salazar: A political biography (New York: Enigma Books, 2009) more. Salazar: Uma biografia política (Lisbon: Dom Quixote, 2010) more. by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses. More Info: Published in Brazil as Salazar: Biografia Definitiva (São Paulo: Leya, 2011). Correspondência diplomática irlandesa sobre Portugal, o Estado Novo e Salazar (Lisbon: Ministério dos Negócios to Diplomático, 2005) more.

Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (born in 1969 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese historian, living in Ireland since his young age. He is a professor in Maynooth University, whose historiographical production is predominantly centered around the contemporary histor. He is a professor in Maynooth University, whose historiographical production is predominantly centered around the contemporary history of Portugal. He graduated and received his doctorate at Dublin Trinity College, respectively in 1992 and in 1997. His doctoral thesis dealt with the governments of the Sacred União and Sidónio Pais

Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe (2009) Salazar: A Political Biography. 'The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal' Ribeiro de Meneses, . Baiôa, M. and Fernandes, . 2003) 'The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal'

Ribeiro de Meneses, Filipe (2009) Salazar: A Political Biography. The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal' Ribeiro de Meneses, . 2003) 'The political history of nineteenth-century Portugal'. E-JOURNAL OF PORTUGUESE HISTORY, 1 . 2003. The political history of twentieth-century Portugal' Ribeiro de Meneses, . 2003) 'The political history of twentieth-century Portugal'. 2002.

Antonio 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. As a young man he planned to enter the priesthood and attended the seminary until he decided to become a political economist and an academic. Unlike the other "great dictators" of the twentieth century, including Franco, Mussolini, and Hitler, Salazar immersed himself in the minutiae of government and administration, maintaining a prodigious work rate throughout his forty years in power. He managed his country’s finances and economy—one of the poorest in Western Europe—successfully during the Great Depression. He became a seasoned diplomat who spared Portugal from the horrors of World War II by remaining strictly neutral, ultimately favoring Great Britain and the United States. But Salazar would always remain an extremely conservative, even reactionary statesman who relied on secrecy and a police state, appearing to favor fascism, fearing modernity, and ultimately rejecting the anti-colonialist movements in Asia and Africa. He saw the universal granting of independence to the colonies as a sign that the West was abdicating its civilizing mission. This is the first full-length English-language scholarly biography of a key Portuguese political leader and an icon of twentieth-century politics.

Malojurus

Back in my college days, I took a class on European colonialism, and Antonio de Oliviera Salazar, though only briefly discussed, was intriguing to me since he led the poorest of the colonial powers yet held onto his nation's colonies long after greater powers-- such as the United Kingdom and France --had given up on the imperial concept. He also, unlike those more powerful nations, managed to keep his nation out of World War II.
What were his motivations? What made him tick?
Thus my reason for purchasing this biography of Salazar, first published in 2009 and written by Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses.
Meneses largely leaves the reader to form his or her own conclusions, while providing a fairly thorough analysis of this rather difficult subject, given that Salazar was a very private man, never married, and never even provided much detail into his thought processes in his personal diary, which Ribeiro frequently cites (instead the diary was more a simple recording of the day's events).
A very good book; my criticisms-- and hence why it doesn't garner a fifth star --have mainly to do with the writing style itself. On the one hand, it is rather poorly edited by Enigma Books. There are many a's, the's, and to's missing in the text, much like how you might hurriedly type something into your phone-- an increasing problem in printed media these days, even in major newspapers. Your mind has to constantly "autocorrect".
And on the other hand, the writing in many places is just plain awkward and cumbersome; I do not know much about the author, but if Portuguese is his first language and not English, it would go a long way towards explaining this (and can be forgiven).
Otherwise, as I have said, a very good book and well-worth the read.

Centrizius

I bought this book wanting to know more about fascism and corporatism in an environment not distorted by war, empire building or rabid anti-semitism. It turns out that the New State was not really facist, and that the corporatist state was a failure. The book is good with diplomacy, but less detailed in the day to day workings of a dictatorship. I would have preferred more depth about Salazar's relationship with General Oscar Carmona; was Salazar the dictator's apprentice? How was power ceded, what did Carmona retain? Coming from an authoritarian, academic, catholic background, Salazar was anti-communist, but very wary of Nazi Germany. A very staid dictator, his major achievements were balancing the budget, keeping Portugal out of the world war, and retaining power for forty years, There are bits of information in this book that I had not read of before. Salazar declared a day of mourning after Hitler's suicide. Portugal's Atlantic island possessions were afflicted periodically with famine and starvation. I would have liked to have read a detailed analysis of the fuhrer by Salazar. I would also like to see what steps Salazar took to stop the starvation in the Atlantic possessions. As the leader of a police state, how deeply was he involved with the mechanics of enforcement? It seems exile was often used, or being shipped out to the colonies; but there were prisons as well, and deaths. The book is perhaps weak on "what did he know, and when did he know it?" This is an academic book written about an academic dictator, so it is a bit dry. I have reached the post-war period, and will put it down for a bit. It's a good book, but it's definitely not as juicy as The Court of the Red Tsar.

Qucid

Anyone who has tried to find a book (in English) on Portuguese history, let alone Portugal in the 20th Century, will be well aware of the fact that there are very few to be found. It is for this reason that anyone interested in the subject will welcome the publication of Dr. Filipe De Meneses' excellent political biography of Antonio Salazar. In fact, I am willing to bet that this book would be widely appreciated even if it were half as good as it turned out to be.

This meticulously detailed study covers Salazar's rise to prominence and subsequent control of Portugal, a nation he essentially led for 40 years, until illness forced him to step down in 1968. The four decades of Salazar's rule were far from tranquil, and he was forced to navigate Portugal through the tumultous events that were occurring just beyond its borders. Salazar had a role to play in the Spanish Civil War, World War 2, and the Cold War. The final years of Salazar's rule were devoted to fighting for retention of Portugal's overseas possessions in Africa.

The chapters on Salazar's diplomatic activity during World War 2 are particularly strong, and should be of interest to anyone who wants to study the history of the war from a new angle. Most studies of World War 2 devote little more than a page or two to Portugal's role in the war, and this book does much to illustrate why this lack of coverage is unjust(while Portugal did stay neutral in the conflict, Salazar played an important diplomatic role, dealing with the leaders of both the Axis and Allied powers).

The section of the book devoted to the colonial wars Portugal participated in are also quite strong (though by necessity the coverage largely ends with Salazar's death; the wars continued for another several years). Portugal's colonial conflicts in the 1960s and 1970s is another topic that is unjustly overlooked by academics (again, at least those that write in English). This book's contribution to the subject will be enjoyed by anyone who has tried to search for material on the subject.

I commend Dr. De Meneses for his magisterial work, and I hope that he continues to publish excellent English-language studies on Portuguese history (he seems to be the only one doing so at this time).

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