Propaganda represented the sacrifice of soldiers in war and praised the power of the country. It has been around these images that all over the world entire populations were mobilized on the expectation of victory. Through the static image of printed posters or the newspaper news projected in cinemas all over the globe, governments sought to promote a patriotic spirit, encouraging the effort of individual sacri...
Portugal before the War. Subsidies for a page of national history is the title for the interventionist pamphlet by João Chagas, published in Portugal in 1915, which we have chosen to analyse since it is our opinion that through this process it is possible to understand one of the possible images of the 1st Republic. It is an extensive document in which João Chagas addresses a universal audience (the Portuguese)...