
Designing Brazil
Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750-1825)
Jurandir Malerba(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 29. June 2025
Book
Hardback
278 pages
978-1-041-03250-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents a historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal, illuminating the projects that the statesmen of the period formulated for the rich Portuguese territory in America-at first as a colonial domain, then as a potential independent country.
Drawing on primary sources and historiographical dialogues with classic and current works, the book follows a chronological thread from Marquis of Pombal's reforms to Brazilian independence. The work is framed by global geopolitics at the height of the liberal revolutions that led to the collapse of the Ancient Regime and the colonial system. Liberal revolutions, the Atlantic context, Napoleonic wars, and disputes for hegemony on the South American continent provide further background to the making of the Portuguese-American slaveholding class, the guarantor of the independence process. While the volume focuses on a remote period of history, its analysis of agendas for the nation offers the opportunity for dialogue with current concerns in Brazil.
Designing Brazil is an effective resource for understanding a long and seminal period of Brazil's history, which will be of value to scholars of Brazilian history and Latin American history and studies more widely.
Drawing on primary sources and historiographical dialogues with classic and current works, the book follows a chronological thread from Marquis of Pombal's reforms to Brazilian independence. The work is framed by global geopolitics at the height of the liberal revolutions that led to the collapse of the Ancient Regime and the colonial system. Liberal revolutions, the Atlantic context, Napoleonic wars, and disputes for hegemony on the South American continent provide further background to the making of the Portuguese-American slaveholding class, the guarantor of the independence process. While the volume focuses on a remote period of history, its analysis of agendas for the nation offers the opportunity for dialogue with current concerns in Brazil.
Designing Brazil is an effective resource for understanding a long and seminal period of Brazil's history, which will be of value to scholars of Brazilian history and Latin American history and studies more widely.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Illustrations
28 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 28 s/w Abbildungen
28 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
574 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-03250-2 (9781041032502)
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Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750-1825)
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Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750-1825)
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Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750-1825)
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Jurandir Malerba holds a PhD in history (USP, 1997) and is a full professor at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford and a visiting professor at Georgetown University, United States, and at Freie Universitaet, Berlin, where he inaugurated the Sergio Buarque de Holanda Chair in Brazilian Studies.
Content
Foreword, Wim Klooster Introduction: a bridge to the past Part 1: Brazil within the Portuguese Empire 1. The age of reforms 2. A new pedagogy 3. The visible spectrum of lights 4. The colonial condition 5. Ideological alignment, science, and political economy 6. Whose Luso-Brazilian empire? 7. Reformers Part 2: The Portuguese Empire in Brazil 8. War time 9. A Court in the tropics 10. Logics of Court 11. A matter of class 12. The character: Joao 13. Jose da Silva Lisboa, reformer Part 3: From Portuguese colony to the Empire of Brazil 14. Independence: passe-partout 15. Cortes, conspiracies, and clashes 16. Profile of a man between two eras 17. Jose Bonifacio, architect of chimeras Conclusion: A country for the few