Christoph Kalter

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Postcolonial People (eBook, PDF)

The Return from Africa and the Remaking of Portugal

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Having built much of their wealth, power, and identities on imperial expansion, how did the Portuguese and, by extension, Europeans deal with the end of empire? Postcolonial People explores the processes and consequences of decolonization through the histories of over half a million Portuguese settlers who 'returned' following the 1974 Carnation Revolution from Angola, Mozambique, and other parts of Portugal's crumbling empire to their country of origin and citizenship, itself undergoing significant upheaval. Looking comprehensively at the returnees' history and memory for the first time, this book contributes to debates about colonial racism and its afterlives. It studies migration, 'refugeeness,' and integration to expose an apparent paradox: The end of empire and the return migrations it triggered belong to a global history of the twentieth century and are shaped by transnational dynamics. However, they have done nothing to dethrone the primacy of the nation-state. If anything, they have reinforced it.

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Autor

Christoph Kalter is Professor of History at the University of Agder, where he specializes in the modern history of Western Europe in its global contexts. He is the author of The Discovery of the Third World: Decolonization and the Rise of the New Left in France, c. 1950-1976 (Cambridge University Press, 2016), first published as Die Entdeckung der Dritten Welt. Dekolonisierung und neue radikale Linke in Frankreich (Campus 2011). The book was awarded the Walter-Markov-Prize (2011) and the prize Geisteswissenschaften International (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108950091
• Artikelnr.: 66183583