Abstract

ALVES, Daniel. Crisis and republicanism in the Lisbon shopkeeper’s discourse (1890-1910). Anál. Social [online]. 2012, n.205, pp.766-791. ISSN 0003-2573.

About the petty bourgeoisie in contemporary Portugal there isn’t an overall research work or even a series of articles that encourage a line of research to shed some light on this sector of society. This relative scarcity is particularly strange, if one takes into account what some authors refer to have been the role, for example, of shopkeepers in the social and political conjuncture of the final period of the monarchy. Through a detailed analysis of the development of small businesses in Lisbon, and about the political and social discourse of the shopkeepers, this work is intended to point out one possible explanation for the path to the Republic that these men started to take in the early 1890s.

Keywords : crisis; republicanism; shopkeepers; Lisbon.

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