"Beginning with Portugal's Carnation Revolution in April 1974 and charting the country's emergence from the Estudo Novo dictatorship (in power since 1933); the new period of democracy; Portugal's time as holders of the Presidency of the European Union and the economic crisis that hit the country in 2010, [this book] is an account of Portugal in the closing decades of the twentieth century and the start of the twenty-first."--Book jacket.