António Sardinha
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António Sardinha (9 September 1887 in
Early politics
Sardinha studied law at the University of Coimbra and graduated in 1911.[2] During his student years, he was a supporter of republicanism and briefly of anarcho-syndicalism,[2] but by 1911 he had become a strong advocate of monarchism and Catholicism, partly because of the influence of his highly conservative mother.[3] He was also influenced in this regard by the Spanish conservative Juan Vázquez de Mella, who was a close friend of Sardinha from the early 1900s.[4]
Integralism
He helped found the
Sardinha was this group's foremost ideologue and his programme was outlined in his 1925 work, A Aliança Peninsular, which called for a regression in
Under Sardinha's direction the movement converted from being a group of monarchist nostalgics into a coherent ideology that hoped to establish a new era in Portuguese history under the leadership of a strong centralised monarchy.[2] Unlike some of his contemporaries Sardinha considered a close relationship to Spain to be of central importance for Portugal and he also took an internationalist view in general, hoping to see similar integralisms develop elsewhere, particularly in Brazil where that proved to be the case.[2]
His early death in 1925 saw Integralismo Lusitano lose its most celebrated thinker and as a movement it failed to recover from the blow.[10] Drawing from traditional monarchism, Hispanidad, ruralism, Integralism, scientific racism, fascism and national syndicalism he had created a complex syncretic ideology that inevitably fissured into various factions after his death.[6]
Historian
As well as his political activism Sardinha was also noted as a somewhat controversial historian. Much of his work was given over to a
References
- ^ Howard J. Wiarda, Iberia and Latin America: New Democracies, New Policies, New Models, 1996, p. 18
- ^ a b c d Philip Rees, Biographical Dictionary of the Extreme Right Since 1890, 1990, p. 344
- ^ Douglas L. Wheeler, Republican Portugal: A Political History, 1910-1926, 1999, p. 70
- ^ Marek Jan Chodakiewicz & John Radzilowski, Spanish Carlism and Polish Nationalism, 2003, p. 39
- ^ a b Anna Klobucka, The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth, 2000, p. 83
- ^ a b c d e Rees, Biographical Dictionary, p. 345
- ^ Nicholas Perry & Loreto Echeverría, Under the Heel of Mary, 1988,p. 183
- ^ Sharon R. Roseman & Shawn S. Parkhurst, Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts, 2008, p. 218
- ^ Rees, Biographical Dictionary, p. 314
- ^ Tom Gallagher, Portugal: a Twentieth-Century Interpretation, 1983, p. 31
- ^ Marcus Cheke, Carlota Joaquina, Queen of Portugal, 1969, p. 20
- ^ Clare Mar-Molinero & Angel Smith, Nationalism and the Nation in the Iberian Peninsula, 1996, p. 49