This book, edited by three historians, each focusing on a different country, began to be prepared in 2005, five years before the centenary of the Republic in Portugal, and not in any way inspired by that event in any way. However, a marked delay in putting the idea into practice meant that the edition was only launched in 2011. There were other reasons behind this. The idea was stimulated by the first Portugal, Brazil and Italy conference on themes and problems of political history and 20th century ideologies, which took place in November 2005 at the University of Bologna, one of the three universities involved (the other two are the University of Coimbra and the University of São Paulo). Connected to these institutions are research units and projects such as the Centre for 20th century Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS 20, Coimbra, Portugal), the PROIN — Integrated State Archive Project/ University of São Paulo and the Dipartimento di Discipline Storiche della Università degli Studi di Bologna. Thus, the project for editing a book that would deal with Republican Doctrine and Ideology (Part I), Republican Power and Practices (Part II) and the Protagonists: Trajectories And Project (Part III) arose from a dynamic developed by researchers that have been exploring these topics in their respective countries within the ambit of these universities and study centres, and who were available to publish their partial or conclusive studies.
Armando Malheiro da Silva nasceu em Braga em 1957. Licenciado em Filosofia pela Faculdade de Filosofia de Braga (Universidade Católica Portuguesa) e em História pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Habilitado com o antigo Curso de Bibliotecário-Arquivista pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. Em 1989, na Universidade do Minho, prestou Provas Públicas com uma tese intitulada Ideologia e Mito no Miguelismo. Subsídios para o estudo da contra-revolução no Portugal oitocentista. Doutorado pela Universidade do Minho, onde defendeu, em 1999, a tese de doutoramento, intitulada Sidónio e Sidonismo. História e Mito. É professor associado da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Colaborador do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX da Universidade de Coimbra (CEIS 20).
He was born in Braga in 1957 and holds a Degree in Philosophy from the Braga Faculty of Philosophy of the Portuguese Catholic University and a Degree in History from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Oporto. He is also a graduate of the former Librarian-Archivist Degree Course of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra. He presented his credentials for the award of Master at the University of Minho in 1989 with a dissertation entitled: “Ideologia e Mito no Miguelismo: Subsídios para o estudo da contra-revolução no Portugal oitocentista” [Ideology and Myth in Miguelism: Subsidies for the study of the eighteenth century Portuguese counter-revolution]. He received his Doctorate from the University of Minho in 1999 with a thesis that dealt with the following issue: “Sidónio e Sidonismo. História e Mito” [Sidónio and Sidónionism: History and Myth]. He is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Oporto and contributor to the 20th Century Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra (CEIS 20).
Stefano Salmi nasceu em Budrio(BO) em 1957. Licenciado e Mestre em Scienze Politiche (indirizzo Storico-Politico) pela Faculdade de Scienze Politiche da Università degli Studi di Bologna. Doutorando da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra. É colaborador do Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares do Século XX da Universidade de Coimbra (Ceis 20). Tem proferido diversas conferências em estabelecimentos de ensino e de cultura, para além de uma participação intensa em vários Seminários, Colóquios, Encontros e Congressos no âmbito das Ciências Sociais e Humanas. Tem produção científica repartida pela História Política e Colonial, História das Ideias, da Cultura e do Imaginário, História da Arte e da Arquitectura, Estética, e ainda pela Ciência da Informação. Publicações mais recentes : Arte e modernità, i due percorsi comuni del fascismo e dell’Estado Novo, em Estados autoritários e totalitários e suas representações, Luís Reis Torgal e Heloisa Paulo (ed.), Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade, 2008; La cultura della sorveglianza, em Tempos de fascismos de Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro e Federico Croci, São Paulo, Editora EDUSP, 2010.
He was born in Budrio, Italy in 1957. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Political Science (Historical-Political track) from the Faculty of Political Science of the Università degli Studi di Bologna. He completed a Doctorate at the Faculty of Letters at the University of Coimbra. He works at the Centre for 20th Century Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra (CEIS20). He has given papers at many conferences held at educational or cultural institutes and has often been part of seminars and symposiums. His scientific work comprises the areas of political and colonial history, the history of ideas, culture and the imagination, art and architecture, aesthetics, and information sciences. His most recent published work is Arte e modernità, i due percorsi comuni del fascismo e dell’Estado Novo [“Art and modernity, fascism’s two common courses in the Estado Novo”] in Estados autoritários e totalitários e suas representações [in “Totalitarian and Authoritarian States and their representations”], Luis Reis Torgal and Heloisa Paulo (ed.) Coimbra, Coimbra University Press (2008); and La cultura della sorveglianza, [“The culture of surveillance”] in “Tempos de fascismos” written in conjunction with Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro and Federico Croci. São Paulo, Editora EDUSP (2010).