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The first part of this chapter looks at the conflicting pressures regarding Portugal’s colonial struggles that fell on Salazar’s successor, Marcelo Caetano. These gave hints that Portugal’s open-ended commitment to colonial wars was beginning to break down. The second half explores the Portuguese Revolution in detail and why its development meant that decolonization would turn out to be a much swifter and messier process than it might otherwise have been.
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de Meneses, F.R., McNamara, R. (2018). First to Fall: Portugal from Coup to Revolution. In: The White Redoubt, the Great Powers and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1960–1980. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44758-6_6
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