History of Portugal
Instance: 2012/2013 - 1S
Cycles of Study/Courses
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
This course aims to provide students with accurate, general and critical information background, to take a general, diachronic and summarised account of the History of Portugal, revisiting its major periods and structural contexts to better understand our contemporaneity. At the same time, we will seek to meet the needs and specific aims of the course, while ensuring that students receive critical suggestions and operative analysis orientations, enhancing their appreciation for reflexive, personal and independent studies of the current issues of the country (at internal and external levels), in light of their constant development. At the end of the semester, students must be able to:
a) identify the major cycles of the history of Portugal in the European context;
b) identify the most important factors of change of our modernity and contemporaneity; c) to question themselves and talk critically on the role and place of national history in the context of globalisation factors.
Program
I. Introduction. From medieval Portugal to modern Portugal.
1. A. Herculano and the new science of history. The issue of the “origins” of Portugal.
2. From the formation of Portugal to the Avis dynasty and the beginning of expansion.
3.From the “cycle of pepper” to the “cycle of gold”: social structures, representations of power and political practices.
4. From restored Portugal to the Portugal of “Enlightenment”. Pombal and the reform of illustration.
II. 19th century Portugal in search of “regeneration”
1. From the civil war to the struggles among factions. Ideology families and liberal parties. Political programmes and practices, elections and suffrage.
2. The institutional and material transformations. “Development” and social evolution. Daily life and new forms of sociability
3. Public education and its “regenerating” effects
III. 20th century Portugal: successes and failures in overcoming “decadence”
1. The end of the Constitutional Monarchy and the advent of the Republic
2. Positivism and secularism in the Republican “culture pot”. Legislation, governance, political parties and practices established by the 1911 Constitution.
3. Contributions to an explanation of the 28th May. Oliveira Salazar and the New State.
principles of the 1933 Constitution. Society, ideology control and “politics of spirit”.
4. From “Marcelo’s spring time” to the “revolution of carnations” and the 1976 Constitution.
5. Characteristics of the regime and the new Portuguese society after 25 April.
Mandatory literature
AA.VV. ; A Situação social em Portugal, 1960-1999, 2 vols., ICSUL, Lisboa, 1999
BARRETO, António, MÓNICA, Maria Filomena (coord.); Dicionário de História de Portugal, vols. 7, 8 e 9, Figueirinhas, Porto, 2000
J. J. Gomes Canotilho e Vital Moreira; Constituição da República Portuguesa anotada, Coimbra Ed., Coimbra, 1993
FRANÇA, José-Augusto; Os anos vinte em Portugal, Presença, Lisboa, 1992
HERCULANO, Alexandre; História de Portugal, tomo I, Bertrand, Lisboa, 1980
MATTOSO, José; A Identidade Nacional, Gradiva, Lisboa, 2001
MATTOSO, José (dir.); História de Portugal, vols 4 e 5, Estampa, Lisboa, 1993
RAMOS, Rui (coord.); História de Portugal, Esfera dos Livros, Lisboa, 2010. ISBN: 978-989-626-139-9
REIS, António (dir.); Portugal Contemporâneo, 6 vols, Alfa, Lisboa, 1990
ROSAS, Fernando (coord.); Dicionário de História do Estado Novo, 2 vols., Círculo de Leitores, Lisboa, 1996
SÉRGIO, António; Ensaios, t. I a VI, Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1971
SÉRGIO, António; Breve interpretação da História de Portugal, Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1976
SERRÃO, Joel (dir.); Dicionário de História de Portugal, 6 vols, Iniciativas Editoriais, Lisboa, s/d.
TORGAL, Luís Reis, MENDES, José Amado, CATROGA, Fernando; História da História em Portugal (Sécs. XIX-XX), Temas e Debates, Lisboa, 1998. ISBN: 972-759-090-X
Teaching methods and learning activities
A combination of theory, practical classes and tutorials, integrating expository and inductive methods focused on the student’s effort, initiative and participation. Practical classes and tutorials emphasise the critical review of texts (literary and non-literary) and other “period documents”. Use of audio-visual equipment.
keywords
Humanities
Social sciences > Cultural studies
Humanities > History
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation with final exam
Assessment Components
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
Weight (%) |
End date |
Attendance (estimated) |
Participação presencial |
52,00 |
|
|
Exam |
Exame |
2,00 |
|
|
|
Total: |
- |
0,00 |
|
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Description |
Type |
Time (hours) |
End date |
Study |
Estudo autónomo |
108 |
|
|
Total: |
108,00 |
|
Eligibility for exams
Attending 75% of classes, unless established otherwise by law.
Calculation formula of final grade
Reading report or research assignment - 30%; Exam - 70%
Examinations or Special Assignments
Not applicable
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
Not applicable
Classification improvement
Accordance with Assessment Regulations in force.