Contemporary History of Portugal
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
History |
Instance: 2023/2024 - 1S ![Requerida a integração com o Moodle Ícone do Moodle](/flup/pt/imagens/MoodleIcon)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
ARQU |
34 |
ARQU - Study Plan |
3 |
- |
6 |
41 |
162 |
Teaching language
Suitable for English-speaking students
Objectives
The Course seeks to offer an overview of the Contemporary History of Portugal from the liberal system constitutionalization to the post-revolutionary democratization process after April 25, 1974. At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Recognize and relate the nineteenth and twentieth centuries historical cycles, from the establishment of liberalism to the authoritarian forms of regime and the continuities and discontinuities of the Portuguese colonial experience.
2. Relate historiographical debates and models of analysis concerning Contemporary History of Portugal main cycles and events.
3. Mobilize bibliography, sources, and different methodologies to study this historical period.
Learning outcomes and competences
1. Understand the connected nature of contemporary historical processes, reflecting on the relationship between historical present and past.
2. Identify major historiographical interpretations and concepts (e.g., liberalism, revolution, republicanism, secularism, fascism, corporatism, colonialism, and decolonization).
3. Distinguish the main historical cycles of the historical period, considering the basic bibliography and sources available to the construction of historical knowledge.
4. Apply adequately the tools of historiographical practice and knowledge production.
Working method
Presencial
Program
Part I. The establishment of Liberalism in Portugal: revolution, identity, and sovereignty
Introduction to Contemporary History of Portugal
1. Modern state and national identity definition
2. Liberal constitutionalization, sovereignty and territorial administrative organization
Part II. Imperialism: “civilizing mission” and racial ideology
3. Modern African Empire (1890-1898)
4. The “civilizing mission”, economic and ideological intercessions
Part III. The Republic: project, experience, and crisis
5. Republic, secularization, and civil religion
6. The Great War, discourse, experience, and memory
7. Fall of the First Republic, political and socio-economic crisis
Part IV. Estado Novo: ideological project, socio-economic organization and "política de espírito”
8. Estado Novo, totalizing ideological project
9. Corporatism, socio-economic organization, and emigration
10. Modernism and “política de espírito”
11. Late Colonialism, Propaganda and Censorship
Part V. Democracy: decolonisation, revolution, and memory(ies)
12. Colonial War and War of Independence
13. 25 April, historiographical approaches, and remembrance
14. Legacy(ies) of the colonial past
Mandatory literature
José Matoso;
História de Portugal. ISBN: 972-33-1261-1
Fernando Rosas;
Dicionário de história do Estado Novo. ISBN: 972-25-1015-0
Fernando Rosas;
História da Primeira República Portuguesa. ISBN: 978-972-8955-98-4
REIS, António (dir.); Portugal Contemporâneo, Alfa, 1990
Complementary Bibliography
Aniceto Afonso;
Os^anos da guerra colonial. ISBN: 978-989-628-213-4
António Barreto;
Dicionário de história de Portugal
António Costa Pinto;
O^fim do império português. ISBN: 972-24-1147-0
António Costa Pinto;
História contemporânea de Portugal. ISBN: 978-989-672-186-2
Fernando Rosas;
A^transição falhada. ISBN: 972-46-1538-3
Francisco Bethencourt;
História da expansão portuguesa. ISBN: 972-759-302-X
Jaime Reis;
O^atraso económico português em perspectiva histórica. ISBN: 972-27-0547-4
Ferreira, J. M. ; Cinco regimes na política internacional, Editorial Presença , 2006
Maria Inácia Rezola;
25 de Abril. ISBN: 978-989-626-054-5
Pedro Lains;
História económica de Portugal 1700-2000
Valentim Alexandre;
Velho Brasil, novas Áfricas
Comments from the literature
See the complete list of bibliography in the Support Documentation to this Course. Bibliographical references will be pointed for each class.
Teaching methods and learning activities
The Theoretical-Practical (TP) sessions will consist of teaching activities and discussion around the course content, supported on bibliography and supplementary materials. At the same time, an explanation of historical context and historiography will be carried out. Students’ participation is fundamental for the debate around the classes’ topics and the materials provided. The Tutorial Orientation (TO) sessions will focus on tools of historiographical learning and production.
keywords
Humanities > History > Contemporary History
Humanities
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation without final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Teste |
60,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
40,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Frequência das aulas |
54,00 |
Estudo autónomo |
108,00 |
Total: |
162,00 |
Eligibility for exams
Approval in this module requires:
1. 75% attendance of lectures, both Theory-practical and Tutorials.
2. minimal score of 10 (ten) out of 20 in a test and an essay).
Calculation formula of final grade
60% Written test
40% Essay
Examinations or Special Assignments
not applicable
Internship work/project
not applicable
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
In accordance with Assessment Regulations.
Classification improvement
In accordance with Assessment Regulations.
Observations
Students will have access to all course materials through the Sigarra platform, namely (i) detailed program, (ii) class summaries, (iii) bibliography and complementary materials.
The written tests consist in answering two out of four questions about the course contents.
The essays should have about 10 pages.
For foreign students, assessments may be presented inn Spanish, English, French or Italian.