Contemporaneous history of Portugal

Objectives

1. Recognize the process of affirmation of liberalism and its consequences.

2. Characterize the cultural movements that have marked the country in the 19th century.

3. Analyze the causes of the fall of the monarchy in Portugal.

4. Justify the tribulations and the outcome of the first Republic.

5. Explain the process of Ascension and affirmation of the Estado Novo.

6. Recognize the ideals and the values salazaristas.

7. To foster the reflection with a view to the exercise of a critical and active citizenship;

8. To acquire skills, both of a personal nature (reasoning ability, critical consciousness) and of a scientific historical nature (collection of bibliography and documentary information, critical analysis of the sources and of the bibliography available, drafting of research papers on specific themes of the syllabus).

Program

I - THE FIRST LIBERAL MOVEMENT
1. The emergence of a liberal conscience
2. The military pronouncement of August 24, 1820
3. The parliament
4. The Constitution of 1822
II – FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE COUNTER-REVOLUTION
1. The opposition to revolution
2. The problem of the succession
3. The Constitutional Charter
4. The civil war
5. Setembrismo, cabralismo. Revolutionary crisis and public order
III - THE "REGENERAÇÃO"
1. The policy framework: the two-party system and the rotativismo
2. The political and economic significance of fontismo
IV – THE CRISIS OF CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY
1. The ultimatum and the January 31
2. The “franquismo”
3. The regicide
4. The establishment of the Republic
V – THE I REPUBLIC
1. The Republic and the war
2. Instability and decay
3. The fall of the first Republic
VI – FROM THE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP TO THE ESTADO NOVO
1. The ambiguity of May 28
2. The institutionalization of the Estado Novo
3. The Constitution of 1933
4. Salazarism: a fascism?

Teaching Methodologies

Interactive theoretical-practical lessons, focusing on student participation, with guidance from the professor, based on methods of analysis, interpretation and criticism of texts and other documents relevant to the issues under study.

Promotion of dialogue with the students, valuing the "recovery" of knowledge already acquired, not only in the context of the course but, whenever possible, appealing to the importance of interdisciplinarity and of "general klnowledge" in the success of university education.

Bibliography

BONIFÁCIO, Maria de Fátima, Seis Estudos sobre o Liberalismo Português, Lisboa, 1996.

CABRAL, Manuel Villaverde, O Desenvolvimento do Capitalismo em Portugal no Século XIX, 3ª. ed., Lisboa, 1981.

CAMPINOS, Jorge, A Ditadura Militar – 1926/1933, Lisboa, 1975.

CATROGA, Fernando, O Republicanismo em Portugal da Formação ao 5 de Outubro de 1910, Coimbra, 1991.

HOMEM, Amadeu Carvalho, Da Monarquia à República, Viseu, 2001.

MARQUES, A. H. de Oliveira, História de Portugal, 3 vols., Lisboa, 1981.

MATTOSO, José (dir.), História de Portugal, vol. V-VIII, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 1993, 1994.

ROSAS, Fernando, O Estado Novo nos Anos 30 – elementos para o estudo da natureza económico-social do salazarismo (1928-1938), Lisboa, 1987.

VALENTE, Vasco Pulido, O Poder e o Povo: A Revolução de 1910, 3.ª ed., Lisboa, Gradiva, 1999.

VARGUES, Isabel Nobre, A Aprendizagem da Cidadania em Portugal (1820-1823), Coimbra, Minerva, 1997.