The article focuses on the final stage of the dismemberment of the Luso-Brazilian empire and discusses the treaty of recognition of Brazil by Portugal, analysing the political negotiations and manoeuvres which led up to it and which immediately followed it, up until the death of king John VI, in March 1826. The text does not view this process as a natural result of Brazil's proclamation of independence, which ...
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In this paper we try to evaluate the weight of some of the most important traumas that shaped the Portuguese imperial history in the formation of collective memory and in the construction of the national identity narrative. As reference points, we took successively the disaster of Alcácer-Quibir, the desegregation of the Portuguese-Brazilian empire, the English ultimatum of 1890 and the final decolonisation (wi...
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No presente texto, procura-se avaliar o peso de alguns dos principais traumas que marcaram a história imperial portuguesa na formação da memoria colectiva, na construção da narrativa identitária nacional. Como pontos de referencia, tomámos sucessivamente o desastre de Alcácer-Quibir, a desagregação do império luso-brasileiro, o ultimatum inglês de 1890 e a descolonização final (com as fortes resistências que en...
Taking as points of reference the opposing theories of «economic imperialism» and «prestige imperialism», this article weighs up the various factors which contributed to the consolidation of Portuguese colonial plans centred in Africa, after the breakdown of the Luso-Brazilian system. This study emphasizes in particular the political motivations involved, which were in part geo-strategic, and in part tied in wi...
In the first part, the article analyses the development of Oliveira Martins' ideas about the national question. It points out that in his writings there is a tension between two explanatory models: the one that gives predominance to natural and permanent features of a people's life (characteristics that are handed down from the beginning of time); and that which gives more emphasis to civilisation, to things th...
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