I am looking for a serious academic examination of the Carnation Revolution and its aftermath, and nothing appears to exist in English other than explicitly biased texts. Wikipedia’s own citations (and articles) are similarly scarce, as is this subreddit from what I can tell.
Given the seemingly remarkable reality of what occurred, I’m curious as to why it has received so little attention from anglophone historians. Am I missing something? Is there a paucity of Portuguese-English fluency? Or am I just incorrect in thinking that this would be an area ripe for academic work?
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I have managed to find one book by a seemingly neutral PhD-holder: Out of the Shadows: Portugal from Revolution to the Present Day by Neill Lochery, but even this seems to be heavily reliant on British diplomatic archives, which are of course not entirely reliable for a neutral account.
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