Ler História 42 / 2002
Dossier Foreigner Politic in Portuguese New State
Pedro Aires Oliveira
Portugal and the Abyssinian crisis (1935-1936)Elsa Santos Alípio
The negotiation process of the Portugal's accession to EFTA (1956-1960)
Luís Nuno Rodrigues
The United States and the "Goa case" in 1961
Articles
Francisco Santana
Lords and slaves in 18th century enfranchisementsAna Cardoso de Matos
Environment and industry in the 19th centuryPedro Lains e Fernando Costa
Portugal and the Anglo-Boer WarDulce Freire
Wine Sector against corporative organization (1933-1937)Hernâni Resende
The historicism as the methodological principle of Vasco Magalhães-Vilhena's philosophical thinking
Documentos em Estudo
Maria Lucília Estanco e Ana Luísa Paz
A missing memory about the War of 1914-1918: the La Lys Battle
Abstracts
Ler História 42 / 2002
Portugal and the Abyssinian Crisis (1935-1936)In 1959, the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, visited Portugal as an official guest of Salazar's government. In their speeches, the African statesman and the Portuguese ministers made abundant references to the historical bonds that united both countries since the Sixteenth century. From this celebration, however, a significant episode was omitted: the role played by Portugal at the League of Nations when Italy launched its war of aggression against Ethiopia. What were the terms of Portugal's diplomatic performance in that crisis? Why did Portugal, an authoritarian country, support Abyssinia's independence almost flawlessly and voted the League's sanctions against Fascist Italy? And what were the motives behind Portugal's change of policy in July 1936? These are some of the questions that the present article will try to answer.
The negotiation process of Portugal's accession to EFTA (1956-1960)Based on documentation collected at Portuguese archives and at Public Record Office, it reconstructs the negotiation process of Portugal's accession to EFTA. It does not intend to be an economic work, but, instead, to identify eventual political motivations among the Portuguese partaking in the negotiations, tracing the strategy of the British government and its attitude towards Portugal. For that reason it starts in 1956 - year of the British proposal of a wider Free Trade Area -, on the conviction that the creation of EFTA resulted from two negotiable moments.
The United States and the "Goa case" in 1961This article analyzes the political and diplomatic initiatives of the United States government regarding the so-called "Goa case", namely in the months that preceded the military invasion of the Portuguese territories by the government of the Indian Union, in December 1961. It tries to explain the reasons that justified the American attitude towards this issue and also to evaluate its impact on the Portuguese-American relations. In its beginning, the article includes a brief study on the position of the United States towards Portuguese colonialism in the period after World War II.
Lords and slaves in 18th century enfranchisementsIn the second part of the 18th Century, when the international traffic of slaves reached its top (and is also intense in the Portuguese domains of Africa to Brazil), the slavery in Portugal is subjected to legislative measures, which would then be extinguished. This article is based in a hundred of enfranchisements registered in the notary public's office, between 1756 and 1791, and tries to answer a triple question: who enfranchised who? How? Why? Based on the security the documents allow, it is defined the profile of the manumitted and the manumitted, settled the various ways of the most and the least completed enfranchisements and questioned the reasons for which they were granted.
Environment and industry in Portugal in the 19th centuryIndustrial development brought about a more intensive exploitation of the natural resources, a fact that had environmental consequences, which showed both in a river and air pollution as well as the ecological balance of some areas.
The aim of this work is to discuss the environment consequences of industrial development, the speeches that focused on the impact of breaking the ecological balance and the action taken by the governments to diminish the negative effects on nature of both the increase in the number of factories and more intensive use of energy resources
Portugal e a guerra anglo-boerThis article intends to demonstrate how the involvement of Portugal in the Anglo-Boer war, helped to reinforce the strategical alliance of the Portuguese and Britain interests in the meridional Africa. Although the Portuguese authorities' cooperation to the Britain troops during the conflict wasn't fundamental to decide the result of the war, it gave a new perspective to the alliance between Portugal and Britain, materialized by the Windsor Declaration's signature in October 1899. Granting indulgences to England in Mozambique, Portugal warranted the protection of his African empire and the integration of Mozambique in the new economic space of South Africa, too.
Wine Sector against Corporative Organization (1933-1937)The Winegrower of the Centre and South Portugal Federation and the municipal corporations had a short and grievous life. With the intersection of information coming from various parts, the origins and the implantation mechanisms in this important sector of the Portuguese economy became clearer. It is possible to see the advancements and the recessions of the Government in trying to govern the social and economic life of the rural communities. The rivalries between the employees of the various corporations and the Federation had also become evident. At last, one also questions the environment of "social peace", that some sources and authors claim to have existed in the first years of the New Government.
The historicism as the methodological principle of Vasco Magalhães-Vilhena's philosophical thinking.This study aims to contribute for the clarification of some methodological incidences of one of the most distinctive elements of the philosophical investigations of Vasco de Magalhães-Vilhena: the interest he revealed for the thinking and knowledge historicity problems, related to the social practice. The description and the analyses of Magalhães-Vilhena's thinking evolution, demonstrates that the interest for the historical problematic performed an important role in this author's thinking structuration from the beginning.