Manuel Leal

e-mail | manuelc.leal@gmail.com

Manuel M. Cardoso Leal has a PhD in Contemporary History from the Faculdade de Letras of the University of Lisbon, 2016. He graduated in Economics from the University of Porto (1966-1971) and completed a post-graduated degree in the VII International Course on European Integration, from the Europa Instituut, University of Amsterdam (1972-1973). He developed a professional career as an economist, during which he wrote two books and published numerous articles.  durante a qual escreveu dois livros e numerosos artigos publicados. This curriculum deals with research carried out in the field of Contemporary History .

Published books:

– Visconde de Seabra. Author of the first Portuguese Civil Code. Biography, Lisbon, Alêtheia Editores, 2018. ISBN: 978-989-622-974-0

– José Luciano de Castro. A States-man (1834-1914), Lisbon, Edições Colibri, 2013. ISBN: 978-989-689-297-5

Some published articles:

– «Parliamentary dissolutions in the Portuguese Constitutional Monarchy, from an iberian perspective (1834-1910), Polis, nº 8, Lisbon, Universidade Lusíada Editora, 2023, p. 9-20.

– «Construction and decline of the first party system in Portugal (1820-1910)», Polis, nº 4 (II Série), Lisbon, Universidade Lusíada Editora, 2022, p. 21-38.

– Constituent elections in the Monarchy: the election of 1851 and the Additional Act of 1852: when the Charter granted by the king was changed by the constituent power of the Nation», in Moreira, Vital; Domingues, José (coords), Two centuries of electoral constitutionalism in Portugal, 1820-2020: conference proceedings, Lisbon, Universidade Lusíada, 2021, p. 241-266.

– «Revolution of 1820: an ideal matured in adversity (1820-c. 1870)», Lisbon, Cadernos do Arquivo Municipal, 2ª série, nº 14, vol. I, 2020, p. 177-191.

– «The State-Church cleavage in the Liberal Monarchy (1820-1910)», História. Review of FLUP, Porto, IV Série, Vol. 10, nº 2, 2020, p. 9-29.

– «Elections in the Constitutional Monarchy: governments, parties and public opinion (1852-1910)», História, Review of FLUP, Porto, Vol. 9 nº 2, 2019, p. 36-61.

– «Liberalism and Democracy in nineteenth-century Portugal, in comparative perspetive (1832-1895)», Revista de História das Ideias, vol 37, 2ª série, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2019, p. 239-259.

– «The first experience of organic representation orgânica in Parliament in Portugal (1895-1897), Estudos do Século XX, nº 16, Coimbra, CEIS20, 2016, p. 25-39.

– «The Liberal Chief. José Luciano de Castro: more than 50 years on the political front», in Ernesto Castro Leal e José Pedro Zúquete (coords.), Great Leaders of the History of Portugal, Texto Editores, 2012 [2013], p. 149-168.