Portugal, Angola e o mundo global: do Império aos movimentos de resistência

Abstract

The aim of this monograph is to examine the relationship between Portugal and Angola in the years of 1932 and 1968 to study the role of the colonial process in structuring the nationalist project of the Salazar regime. The aim is to understand the tactics used by the Estado Novo to achieve its aspirations in different historical moments, with the Cold War being the focus of this monograph, based on the methodological provocations of Diego Olstein (2014) from Global History. The research method is qualitative, using mainly secondary sources, but also complemented by primary sources from the Torre do Tombo Archive and the Office of the Historian, in Portugal and the United States, respectively. The main sources for this work are “The Origins of the Angolan Civil War: International Politics and Domestic Political Conflict 1961-1976”, by Guimarães (1992), “Kennedy e Salazar: o leão e a raposa”, by Antunes (2013) and “The History of Angola” by Ball (2017). To maintain control of the colonial territories, the Lusitanian discourse was independent of the ruler. From the King to Salazar, the state returned to a glory that had been lost for centuries as a means of voicing its demands. It can be concluded that the Salazar regime had an intrinsic and innovative colonial orientation that previous governments had not developed, therefore this process was a significant increase in state authoritarianism against the native population. Consequently, the armed struggle for independence was born out of a mixture of nationalist ideas about the formation of an Angolan nation and resentment of an abusive government.