Politics in the Portuguese Empire: The State, Industry, and Cotton, 1926-1974 - Hardcover

Pitcher, M. Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198273738 ISBN 13: 9780198273738

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This book examines the complex relationship between the Portuguese authoritarian regime, the domestic textile industry, and colonial cotton production in Angola and Mozambique. Contrary to the common assumption, it argues that state policies did not always favour Portugal's major industry, nor did links with the empire consistently benefit it. Pitcher argues that instead conflicting interests and contradictory policies had unintentional, even debilitating, effects on many participants in the system. She exposes the pitfalls of authoritarian economic solutions and assesses the influence of empire on the development of a major industry.

About this title

About the Author

M. Anne Pitcher is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University, New York.

Review

"[T]his is a well-researched and clearly analyzed monograph that adds further to our detailed knowledge of state policy and economic development in Portugal and its empire under the dictatorship."--American Historical Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0198273738
• ISBN 13: 9780198273738
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 338