{"product_id":"antonio-de-oliveira-salazar-the-quiet-dictatorship-that-held-portugal-still-the-dictator-s-burden","title":"António de Oliveira Salazar: The Quiet Dictatorship That Held Portugal Still (The Dictator’s Burden)","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortugal did not fall to dictatorship in a single violent moment. It drifted there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn António de Oliveira Salazar , Gordon J. MacKenzie explores one of the twentieth century’s most unusual authoritarian rulers—a man who rejected spectacle, avoided mass hysteria, and built a regime not through noise, but through silence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSalazar did not promise greatness. He promised order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRising from academic obscurity to dominate Portugal for decades, he constructed the Estado Novo, a system grounded in discipline, Catholic morality, censorship, and control. His rule survived world war, outlasted louder dictators, and reshaped an entire nation’s political instincts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is not the story of a tyrant who ruled through chaos.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt is the story of one who ruled by removing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInside this book:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e• The collapse of the Portuguese Republic and the opening for authoritarian rule\u003cbr\u003e\n• Salazar’s rise from economist to absolute political authority\u003cbr\u003e\n• The construction of the Estado Novo system\u003cbr\u003e\n• Censorship, control, and the quiet machinery of repression\u003cbr\u003e\n• Portugal’s neutrality during World War II\u003cbr\u003e\n• The long stagnation behind apparent stability\u003cbr\u003e\n• Empire, resistance, and the limits of control\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a study of power without spectacle, repression without constant violence, and a dictatorship that endured by making itself feel normal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54003761283440,"sku":"979-8257985034","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":54003761316208,"sku":"979-8257985034","price":25.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_4033_454a2bc470.jpg?v=1783563213","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/antonio-de-oliveira-salazar-the-quiet-dictatorship-that-held-portugal-still-the-dictator-s-burden","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}