LISBON, PORTUGAL — Portugal’s former empire is striking back -- through language. As Brazil rises on the international stage and its onetime colonial master wanes, a proposed standardization ...

In the heyday of colonial expansion, eliminating the economic links to empire would have reduced Portugal's per capita income by at least a fifth. While the empire helped the domestic economy, it was ...

This book, a must-read for anyone interested in decolonization or Cold War diplomacy, is the definitive diplomatic history of U.S.-Portuguese relations in the 1960s and 1970s, in the context of ...