A guerra e a democracia. Considerações sobre a situação politica da Europa.

Lisbon, Imprensa de J.G. de Sousa Neves, 1870.. FIRST and ONLY EDITION. 8°, original pink printed wrappers. Largely unopened. In very good condition. 23 pp. *** FIRST and ONLY EDITION. Discusses the consequences of the Franco-Prussian war, arguing that the old model of the European state was obsolete and advocating federalism as the only future for the continent. The author suggests that a pan-Latin federal state (made up of Belgium, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal) would confront similar pan-Germanic and pan-Slavic entities.Antonio [José] Ennes (1848-1901), member of the progressive political and 1870s literary movement in Portugal, by the time of his death had worked across three continents as a journalist, dramatist, librarian, government minister, colonial administrator and diplomat. He was a member of the "generation of the 70s" – the name given to a movement dedicated to political liberalism and realism in art – other prominent members included Eça de Queiroz, Antero de Quental, Batalha Reis and Oliveira Martins. Enes wrote a controversial anti-clerical drama, Os Lazaristas. In 1880 he was elected a Parliamentary Deputy, but parliament was dissolved. Re-elected in 1884, serving successive terms from 1884–87, 1887–89 and 1890-91, he was a defender of Portugal's colonial possessions in Africa in the face of twin threats from an expansionist and aggressive British Empire and native uprisings. In 1891 he organised a military expedition to Portuguese Mozambique, serving as High Commissioner there. *** Innocêncio XX, 355; for the author, see also XX, 355-8; XVIII, 30; XXII, 261; Aditamentos, p. 39. Not located in Porbase. Not located in Jisc. Not located in KVK (51 databases searched). Not located in Hollis, Orbis, Newberry Library or Library of Congress online catalogues. Not located in NUC.