What is it about?
Politics is a central feature of the research on missions. The former Portuguese Empire, during the First Republic, is no exception. The national and transnational implications of that fact are at the centre of this book review.
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Why is it important?
Research on missions is vital for an understanding of the European colonialism in Africa in the 20th century. While reviewing a recent published book on the Portuguese case (Dores, 2016), based upon his PhD thesis (2014), I also reflect about the centrality and fecundity of this field study. In areas such as political, social or urban history, to speak only of 20th century Angola, doctoral thesis like those of Didier Péclard (2005), Maria da Conceição Neto (2012) or Helena Pinto Janeiro (2105) show how productive missions (and ecclesiastic archives) can be, both at national and transnational levels.
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This page is a summary of: A missão da República: política, religião e o império colonial português, 1910–1926, written by Hugo Gonçalves Dores, Social Sciences and Missions, January 2016, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18748945-02903012.
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