1st Edition

Showing Salazarism A Cultural History of the Early Estado Novo through Political Exhibitions

By Annarita Gori Copyright 2025
282 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp’s conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and 1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride. The Portuguese Estado Novo invested heavily in political exhibitions to consolidate its power and... Read more

Introduction: The Historic Imaginary in Political Exhibitions

1. In Search of Historical Legitimisation: Memory Policies of the Early Estado Novo  2. Dealing with a Recent Past: The 1934 Exposição Documentária da Obra da Ditadura and the 1936 Exposição Comemorativa do Ano X da Revolução Nacional  3. ‘Teaching History with Beauty’: The 1937 Exposição Histórica da Ocupação  4. Timeless  Nation, Modern Vision: Portugal at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Artes et des Techniques de Paris 5. Selling History in the World of Tomorrow: The 1939 New York World’s Fair and San Francisco Golden Gate International Exposition 6. A ‘True City of History’: The 1940 Exposição do Mundo Português

Conclusion: A Crystallised Present for an Eternal Regime

Biography

Annarita Gori is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. She was a Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) Visiting Professor at Brown University and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focuses on cultural diplomacy, visual propaganda, and intellectual networks during Portugal’s Estado Novo regime.