Designing Brazil: Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (17501825) [Hardcover]

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.

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: Jo?o  13. Jos? 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. Jos? Bonif?cio, architect of chimeras  Conclusion: A country for the few 

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 Universit?t, Berlin, where he inaugurated the S?rgio Buarque de Holanda Chair in Brazilian Studies.

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