Health and Fraternity: echoes and meanings of the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic on African lands
This text seeks to point out the host of meanings implied in the term Republic in Portugal and her then colonies of Angola and Mozambique, as well as the expectations around the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910. The article shows that the hopes nurtured by natives in colonial lands we...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) |
| Repositorio: | Anos 90 (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/45564 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/anos90/article/view/45564 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | República Colonialismo Ideologia Angola Moçambique História Estudos Africanos Republic Colonialism Ideology Mozambique |
| Sumario: | This text seeks to point out the host of meanings implied in the term Republic in Portugal and her then colonies of Angola and Mozambique, as well as the expectations around the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910. The article shows that the hopes nurtured by natives in colonial lands were soon frustrated. Official propaganda, Republican in form, was supplanted by administrative pragmatism, and the successive Republican governors acted, in the colonies, in a way that boosted the imperial project and its associated governmental policies, engendered during the Monarchic age. They tried to ensure above all their actual rule over land and people, what caused expropriation, marginalization, racism and social exclusion – practices opposed to the Republican tenets by which Portugal allegedly abode |
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