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The Dictionary

The project CONNECTING PORTUGUESE HISTORY. Digital Dictionary of the Modern World is an initiative of the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) and the Associate Laboratory IN2PAST. Launched in 2024, the dictionary gathers contributions from historians and social scientists from both Portuguese and foreign universities. Following a tradition in Portuguese historiography based on the production of dictionaries of reference, the dictionary is aimed at all those interested in modern and contemporary history. However, differently from the aforementioned tradition, our dictionary exclusively hosts contributions that engage in transnational, comparative, or global perspectives, or that stress the importance of the Portuguese colonial past for modern and contemporary history. All entries are peer-reviewed and published in both Portuguese and English. Due to both its format (digital, multilingual, in open-access) and methodological approach (transnational, comparative, global), the dictionary aims to become an important tool to promote the integration of Portuguese history in international historiographical debates. Every January the dictionary publishes new entries.