Imperial Portugal in the age of Atlantic revolutions : the Luso-Brazilian world, c. 1770-1850 / / Gabriel Paquette.

"As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolution, 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 succu...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:xiv, 450 p. :; ill., maps, ports.
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Summary:"As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolution, 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 deeply. 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"--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781107028975 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9781107333376 (electronic bk.)
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Gabriel Paquette.