Fernando ROSAS, História à História — África [History of History — Africa], Lisbon: Tinta-da-China 2018
Fernando ROSAS, História à História — África [History of History — Africa], Lisbon: Tinta-da-China 2018

Summary/Abstract: Since the end of Salazar’s regime Portuguese historiography has travelled a long way. Ideological indoctrination of the regime (lasted for more than 40 years, 1926–1974) left its traces and it was necessary to “revisit” a big number of themes until then left out, overlooked, misinterpreted, ideologized, politicized or interpreted in a reductionist way. Moreover, it was necessary to consider what had taken place in ancient Portuguese colonies and to initiate professional historiographic debate with African historians. The same took place also with Brazil where the military dictatorship ended in 1985, or in East Timor, country that succeeded to get rid of Indonesian domination and reached independence only in 2002. What belongs to these new themes is not only local resistance against Salazarism or influence of fascism on Salazarism or Portuguese extreme right in itself but also collaboration of Portuguese left with subversive Brazilian opposition at the time of military dictatorship, feminine mass movements supporting Salazarism and new interpretations of Portuguese colonialism.

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