🆕 Daniel Alves is the scientific curator of the exhibition “Lisbon in revolution, 1383-1974“, which will open next Saturday, 25 May, at the Museum of Lisbon – Pimenta Palace, as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974.
🗣 We've opened the call for papers for the international congress "Renewed Spain:
Post-Francoism, Transactions and Democracy (1976-1986)", that we will host in July 2024.
In this edition, the aim is to analyse the history of Spain between 1976 and 1986 from a multidisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective.
📖 The book "Une histoire globale des révolutions", directed by Ludivine Bantigny, Quentin Deluermoz, Boris Gobille, Laurent Jeanpierre, and Eugénia Palieraki, includes a chapter by @victorpereira dedicated to the Portuguese Carnation Revolution.
📖 Fernando Dores Costa has republished a paper that he presented at the French Revolution Bicentennial Congress in Coimbra in the 1980s.
Now, in the e-Journal of Portuguese History, he revisits that research on the role of Mouzinho da Silveira in the abolition of "feudalism" in Portugal.
CORRECTION: this is not a republication, but rather a new version of the study, with added research in relation to the initial work, which was indeed first presented in the 1980s.
The "heighten the contradictions and revolution will follow" idea enrages me because it ignores two very salient points:
Never in history has that strategy - of the #Left intentionally sabotaging #democracy, #liberal policy and politicians - worked, while there are examples of it actually backfiring.
#Revolutions don't end the way you think they will. #Trumpism is a revolutionary movement, FFS. It came very close to succeeding, and is ready to try again in 2024.
The French Revolution wasn't that violent in the beginning, in 1789-1792. You get the impression many people think French commoners spontaneously rose up and cut off the King's head but it was 3.5 years between the Bastille and Louis XVI's execution. Hell the King even participated in the first ever Bastille day celebration.
All hell broke loose, the Terror, the mass killings, after France got involved in an existential war and the King was exposed as a traitor and everyone panicked.
@Alon@DiegoBeghin it's pretty big among a certain kind of nerd on this side of the ocean, and he's very detailed generally. The French revolution season is apparently 30-40 hours in total?