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However, in the História de Portugal [History of Portugal], directed by Damião Peres (1927-1937), many pages were devoted to the history of the discoveries and expansion, authored by Jaime Cortesão (nine long chapters), with some participation from David Lopes on the Moroccan domination. In those chapters, Jaime Cortesão constructed the essentials of a History of the Discoveries and Expansion from the 15th to the 19th centuries. "J. Cortesão a réussi à peindre un tableau lumineusement intelligent et alerte, digne d'un sujet immense, et ses contributions érudites ne sont pas de moindre valeur." (V. M. Godinho, Le Portugal..., 1971, p. 256) The structure of an autonomous discipline was then masterfully presented, albeit within a work of a general nature. While he was building this formidable work, he presented a short summary of that same history in 1930, in the proceedings of the Exposition Internationale d'Anvers, under the title L'Expansion des Portugais dans l'Histoire de la Civilisation. In 1933, the indispensable A marinharia dos descobrimentos [The seamanship of the discoveries] was published by A. Fontoura da Costa. Spanish research on the subject was no further advanced, and in 1931, Gonzalo de Reparaz referred to the great discoveries having begun with the "scientific and methodical enterprise of the Infante Don Enrique [Prince Henry the navigator]" (Reparaz, La época..., 1931, p. 5). He had to resort to foreign bibliography, mainly Portuguese, in addition to that of his exiled friend, Jaime Cortesão.
Directed by António Baião, Hernâni Cidade and Manuel Múrias, the História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo [History of Portuguese Expansion in the World] (1937-1940) was published by Luís de Montalvor's Editora Ática [Ática publishers], harnessed by the so-called great Double Centenary celebrations of 1940. In some chapters, the general structure of the History of the Discoveries and Expansion had been refined. And some of the issues that were worth developing and exploring had also been rekindled amid many conventional and regressive pages. Around the same time, the great 1º Congresso de História da Expansão Portuguesa no Mundo, [1st Congress on the History of Portuguese Expansion in the World] was being held, whose proceedings in 1937-1938 brought many novelties - and a lot of old junk, paying lip service to those who ruled the country. And it exalted convenient real and imaginary glories.
