Na Teia da Aranha
Abstract
By establishing the chronological framework between the First Social Congress (1865) and the First Congress of Socialist Workers of Portugal (1877), João Lázaro successfully identifies the various ruptures and mobilizations within workers’ organizations, their impact on the public sphere, and examines the correspondence between Portugal, Karl Marx, and Engels. The author develops a compelling thesis about the emergence of an internationalist web in Portugal, which poses transnational challenges to socialists. As Professor Fátima Sá emphasizes in the preface: “The book presented here is one that was greatly needed. It was needed by historians working on the 19th century, those studying social movements, and, naturally, those focusing on the labor movement. It was also needed by the so-called ‘general reader,’ or rather, the vast universe of readers outside academia who are interested in the discipline of history in general and in these specific topics in particular, and who are often ignored with Olympian indifference by historians.”
CHSC library reference: 25-6-10