The Locusts: British Critics of Portugal before the First World War (The Portuguese-Speaking World) - Hardcover

Thorn, Dr. Gary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845199618 ISBN 13: 9781845199616

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2019

Synopsis

The 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. The primary focus is to explain how the critical context of Portugal’s history that incubated The Locusts crystalized into the pressure group to free political prisoners.

E. M. Tenison, the Secretary of the British Protest Committee, left a unique 200-page unpublished personal memoir. There are no comparative studies in book form. This book problematizes Anglo-Portuguese relations around the concept forwarded by Amilcar Cabral, and others, that Portuguese colonialism was ‘the colonialism of the semi-colonized’. It makes a broader contribution to the causes of the First World War in Anglo–Portuguese–German relations.

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About the Author

Dr. Gary Thorn lectured in Modern European History at The Open University (1986–2017) and at Birkbeck, University of London (1999–2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1845199618
• ISBN 13: 9781845199616
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320