Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: The Luso-Brazilian World, c.1770–1850 - Softcover

Paquette, Gabriel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107640768 ISBN 13: 9781107640764

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.

About this title

Book Description:

Portugal made great efforts to tie its territories together, but the Luso-Brazilian empire eventually succumbed to revolution like its British, French and Spanish counterparts. This book reveals the links and relationships between Portugal and Brazil that survived the demise of empire and shaped the trajectories of the two countries.

About the Author:

Gabriel Paquette is an Assistant Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Enlightenment, Governance, and Reform in Spain and its Empire, 1759-1808 (2008), editor of Enlightened Reform in Southern Europe and its Atlantic Colonies, c.1750-1830 (2009) and co-editor of Connections after Colonialism: Europe and Latin America in the 1820s (2013).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107640768
• ISBN 13: 9781107640764
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 466