ABSTRACT
The debate that was the basis of the construction of colonial Portuguese thought was largely mediated and disseminating by the independent intellectual press. The importance of classifying this press and its agents led us to choose four metropolitan magazine titles, A Revista Colonial (1912), A Revista Colonial (1913-1923), A Gazeta das Colónias (1924-1926), e o Portugal Colonial (1931-1937). These magazines emerged through a manifesto with the purpose of achieving and gaining the support of a wide audience and with clear programmatic intentions that varied between ideological certainties and the democratic desire to open a public space of reflection and open discussion. Subsidized by independent of government interest groups that could or could not support parties and public figures, however, they intended to have a cultural role of moralizing politics and correcting deviations. From 1912 to 1933 these magazines followed in their pages the main issues of the colonial republican moment and the need for its creation to update the debate, justify its import and duration, as well as the prominence that we gave it now as examples of a wider universe.
