História dos Fascismos (not translated)
Code
711051154
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
História
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
Fernando Mendes Rosas
Weekly hours
4
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
It is intended to introduce students to the critical knowledge of the \"era of fascisms\" and the historical period between the
two World Wars, resorting to its political, ideological, social and economic backgrounds, since the end of the 19th century.
In other words, it resorts to the theoretical concept of the liberalism crisis then initiated, it characterizes its key factors and
follows up its development contextualizing the emergence of fascism. The student is invited to understand fascism as a
product of a particular historical process, basing in it the particularities of fascist movements and the differences of these
movements while regimes, whose nature and internal logic, in turn, it seek to demonstrate in a comparative perspective. It
is also wanted to make comprehensible the crisis and fall process of these regimes in the context of the Second World War,
as well as the survival process of others and its post-war adaptation
Prerequisites
None
Subject matter
Having as starting point the crisis of liberal systems began in the end of the 19th century, proceeds to the comparative
study of fascist movements and fascist regimes in the 20th century Europe from its ideological and political origins in the
transition from the 19th to the 20th century, passing through the processes of power taking until its defeat in the war of
1939/45. Besides the diachronic analysis of the historically contextualized phenomenon, seeks to characterize fascism as
ideology/movement and as a regime while in power. Study is focused on the study of Fascist Italy and National Socialist
Germany cases, without neglecting the reference and comparison with the authoritarian and fascist regimes of Europe´s
peripheral in the same period, with special reference to the Portuguese Estado Novo (New State) and the Spanish Franco
regime. Subsequently it is analyzed the impact of World War II in the process of conducting the war and the fall of European
fascist regimes.
Bibliography
FELICE, R. de, Breve História do Fascismo, Casa das Letras, Lx, 2005
FREI, N., O Estado de Hitler, Casa das Letras, Lx, 2004
HOBSBAWM, A Era dos Extremos. Historia breve do século XX (1914-1991), ed. Presença, Lx, 1996
LUCENA, M., A evolução do sistema corporativo português, I O salazarismo, Ed. Perspec. e Realidades, Lx, 1976
PAYNE,S. G, A History of Fascism (1914-1945), ed. The University of Wisconsin Press, Wisconsin, 1995
PINTO, A. C., O salazarismo e o fascismo europeu, ed. Estampa, Lx, 1992
PRESTON, P., LA Política de la Venganza. El fascismo y el militarismo en la España del siglo XX, Peninsula, Barcelona, 1997
ROSAS, F., Salazar e o Poder. A Arte de Saber Durar, ed. Tinta da China, Lx, 2012
WOODLEY, D., Fascism and Political Theory. Critical perspectives on fascist ideology, ed. Routledge, Lond., 2010
TORGAL, L. R., Estados Novos, Estado Novo, Vols I e II, ed. Imp. da Univ. de C., 2009
Teaching method
The methodology is based on the following bases:
a) Lectures (supported by data-show with maps, statistical tables, photos, etc, or by the distribution of documentation),
always with final time for placing questions or other issues relating to the matter;
b) Classes discussions of texts (theoretical texts or documents of the relevant period) presented by the teacher or by
students communications;
c) Commented display of the film Revolução de Maio, by António Lopes Ribeiro;
d) Guided tour to the \"Revolutionary Lisbon\";
Evaluation method
Evaluation based on the following elements:
1. Class participation;
2. Submission of a written paper (15 pages essay with2 spaces, on the one theme of the programme or a 20 minutes oral
presentation to be presented to the course, both prepared with the teacher);
3. Final written test. Students who submit a written paper may be exempted from the test if they obtain a minimum
evaluation of 14 points.