Jaime Cortesão: the writer and soldier in World War I and his uncompromising defense of a democratic and inclusive Republic
2010; Coimbra University Press; Volume: 8; Linguagem: Inglês
10.14195/0870-4112_8_7
ISSN2183-7139
Autores Tópico(s)Media, Journalism, and Communication History
ResumoThis article addresses the political and civic involvement of the historian Jaime Cortesão (1884-1960), who, from exile, gave a new breath to the History of the Discoveries and the Formation of Brazil.His trajectory was marked by a close interconnection between political engagement and intellectual activity: he was a student activist in 1907, a parliamentary representative of the PRP/Democratic Party led by Afonso Costa, a combatant in Flanders as a volunteer captain doctor.This experience was recorded in the impressive Memórias da Grande Guerra (1916-1919) [Memoirs of the Great War], a book that marks his withdrawal from party politics and represents a turning point in his work, inaugurating a phase dedicated to history.Another period of political involvement began in 1919 with Cortesão's appointment as director of the National Library, a position which he lost due to his participation in the democratic movement of opposition to the dictatorial regime that came to power in 1926 (known as "Reviralhismo").The uprising in which he participated, on 3 February 1927 in Oporto, was bloodily crushed by the Military Dictatorship, and after this Cortesão went into exile and became one of the most notable fi gures of the democratic republican opposition to Salazar's New State until the end of his life.
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