Portuguese Archipelagos in the Atlantic: Defense and External Policies (19th-20th)

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Lectures based on a methodology that encourages students’ participation. Students will also be assigned small weekly researc tasks to be carried out outside contact hours.

Throughout the semester several support texts will be made available, which will be used to illustrate and develop specific aspects of the syllabus and also to promote and serve as a basis for the debate in class.

Learning Outcomes

It is intended that students the following specific responsibilities and/or skills:

a) acquire new knowledge in the scientific area of the MSc, particularly understanding the historical reality of the XIXth & XXth centuries

b) identify and evaluate the persistent and the so called lines-of-force realities of the contemporary Portuguese Atlantic and insular worlds;

c) define and demonstrate the importance of historical knowledge in the analysis and understanding of the present and its role as an essential element in a framework of social development and competitiveness;

d) assimilate the concepts of globalization and identity (national and regional), as well as their formation processes and historical support;

e) integrate and apply the historical knowledge in the management of similar present and current phenomena;

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theoretical and methodological approach. Defense and Foreign Policy: the structural constants.

1. The Portuguese Atlantic Archipelagos at the end of the Old Regime: from French Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars.

2. From Brazil's independence to Civil Wars. The Adjacency issue. Madeira, Azores and Cape Verde during the constitutional monarchy.

3. Technological developments and the end of a paradigm (1834-1860).

4. The colonial question at the end of the nineteenth century. The Portuguese Islands in the strategic triangle.

5. The Great War (1914-1918).

6. From the Military Dictatorship to "Estado Novo" (1926-1933).

7. The Second World War. The Azores prominence.

8. The Cold War. Islands within NATO.

9. The colonial question and the overseas wars (1961-1974).

10. From the transition to democracy and the institution of the Autonomous Regions (1974-1976) to the EEC (1986)

Assessment Methods

Assessment
In class participation: 20.0%
Written test or critical review of a text (type of evaluation to be agreed with the students: 30.0%
Oral / written presentation(group or individual, to be defined), from a portfolio of possible themes, indicated by the teacher : 50.0%

Bibliography

1. Jack P. GREENE e Philip D. MORGAN, Atlantic History: a critical appraisal, OUP, 2008, p. 384

2. Bernard BAILY, Atlantic History: Concept and Contours, 2005, HUP, p. 110.

3. António José TELO, Os Açores e o controlo do Atlântico 1898/1948, Asa, 1993, p. 558.

4. José Medeiros FERREIRA, Cinco Regimes na Política Internacional, Presença, 2006, p. 168.

5. Paulo Miguel RODRIGUES, A Politica e as questões militares na Madeira. O período das guerras

napoleónicas, CEHA, 1999, p. 450.