Isabel Corrêa da Silva

The monarchical engagement of Portuguese immigrants in Brazil: A case of nineteenth-century transnational politics

ABSTRACT This article examines the transnational political practices of the Portuguese immigrant community in Brazil during the late nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. In the light of fresh empirical evidence, it aims to prove the true impact of the political engagement of those Portuguese living abroad during the course of late nineteenth-century political changes in Portugal. It focuses particularly on the struggle between Portuguese monarchist and republican parties to captivate the political sympathy of the emigrants and, later on, on the transatlantic monarchical counter-revolutionary network created after the republican revolution in 1910. It argues that this sort of migrant political activity can be analyzed beyond the framework of the diffusion of domestic politics and acknowledged as a truly transnational phenomenon. Therefore, it seeks to demonstrate how the transnational nature of these Portuguese migrants’ action was decisive to their success on seriously compromising the first republican experience in Portugal.

La Rosa brasileña que ha inflamado la cuestión religiosa en Portugal: el Caso Calmon (1899–1901)

In the process of progressive secularization of society, which gained strength after the late 19th century in Europe and America, the relationships between State and Church assumed a conflicting dynamic that historiography began to call “religious question”. In this article, I propose to analyze the highpoint of this relational tension in Portugal based on a concrete episode, which, due to a convergence of circumstances and predispositions, became a symbol of the laicization of the Portuguese society. It is the polemic generated around the religious calling of the daughter of a Brazilian consul in Porto — situation that led to one of the most fierce debates about religiousness, individual rights, and confessionality of the State, involving governmental instances and civil society in an unprecedented mobilization in such matters. Anticongreganism, anticlericalism, and laic militancy were the key elements of this episode that involved Brazilian citizens and chancelleries and in which it is possible to clearly understand some of the most important cleavages that would later on determine the outcome of the religious question during the Republican regime, between 1910 and 1926.

A Rosa brasileira que incendiou a questão religiosa em Portugal: o Caso Calmon (1899–1901)

In the process of progressive secularization of society, which gained strength after the late 19th century in Europe and America, the relationships between State and Church assumed a conflicting dynamic that historiography began to call “religious question”. In this article, I propose to analyze the highpoint of this relational tension in Portugal based on a concrete episode, which, due to a convergence of circumstances and predispositions, became a symbol of the laicization of the Portuguese society. It is the polemic generated around the religious calling of the daughter of a Brazilian consul in Porto — situation that led to one of the most fierce debates about religiousness, individual rights, and confessionality of the State, involving governmental instances and civil society in an unprecedented mobilization in such matters. Anticongreganism, anticlericalism, and laic militancy were the key elements of this episode that involved Brazilian citizens and chancelleries and in which it is possible to clearly understand some of the most important cleavages that would later on determine the outcome of the religious question during the Republican regime, between 1910 and 1926.