Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The 1891-92 Crisis and Beyond -- Chapter 3: World War I and the 1920s Financial Crisis -- Chapter 4: The Estado Novo period: The 1930s and World War II -- Chapter 5: The Estado Novo period after World War II: The golden age of economic growth (1946-1973) --...

On 25 April 1974, a military coup toppled Western Europe’s oldest dictatorship, Portugal’s Estado Novo. The following years were characterized by political and economic instability with a wage explosion and the reduction of working hours for the country’s labor force, the expropriation of...