Abstract
This article summarizes the path followed by Economic History in order to win acceptance in the Portuguese historiography of the twentieth century. From the evidence of the delayed and difficult inclusion of Economic History in the Portuguese academic space, first we discuss the epistemological dialogues that facilitated the institutionalization of economic history as a field of knowledge and means to analyze societies within the international context. Second, we describe and interpret the singularities of the “Portuguese process,” placing emphasis on the connections between the economic development process of the country and the production of knowledge, albeit uneven, in the area of Economic History. The analysis highlights the moments of rupture, or of renewal and progress, of an economic history that now occupies a prominent place on the map of social sciences in Portugal, in research as well as teaching.