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

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Cover; Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Map of the Portuguese Atlantic world c. 1800; Introduction; 1 The reform of empire in the late eighteenth century; Part I; Extirpation, circulation, and integration; After Pombal: agrarianism and ideologies of development; The impact of foreign ideas: emulation and its discontents; Controlling territory, re-shaping subjects; Negative appraisals of reform before 1808; Part II; The perils and opportunities of free trade.

The slave trade, slavery, and European settlement schemes at the turn of the nineteenth century2 From foreign invasion to imperial disintegration; Part I; Occupation, liberation, and desperation: Portugal and the French revolutionary wars; The road to a Reino Unido: the court in Rio de Janeiro and the reconfiguration of the Portuguese empire; Revolt in an age of restoration, 1815-1823; Political journalism, exile, and the emergence of critics of the Old Regime; PART II.

Constitutionalism in Portugal: enlightenment jurisprudence, the "ancient constitution," and the making of the 1822 ConstitutionPortuguese conservative thought in the age of revolutions; Part III; Judicious reform, empire redux, new-fangled federation, or permanent separation? The dissolution of the Portuguese empire, 1821; Between colony and independent polity: the interstitial character of the Assembléia Constituinte; 3 Decolonization's progeny; Part I; In the shadow of the Cortes: Dom Pedro, the Confederation of the Equator, and the Brazilian Constitution of 1824.

The 1823 restoration in Portugal and the making of neo-absolutismReconciliation, reconquest, or recognition? Portugal and Brazil, 1823-1826; Part II; The empire strikes back: the Atlantic origins and repercussions of the 1826 Portuguese Carta Constitucional; The initial reception of the Carta in Portugal; Sir Charles Stuart, British recognition of Brazil, and the international history of the 1826 Carta; 4 The last Atlantic revolution; Part I; Dom Miguel, conservative political thought, foreign constitutional models, and the reaction to the 1826 Carta.

The "cause of Dom Miguel" and the turbulent politics of the late 1820sThe Carta, its supporters, and the first phase of the Civil War; The emigrados, their ideological divisions, and the formation of a united opposition to Dom Miguel; Part II; The Regency of Terceira; Dom Pedro, Brazilian politics, and the shaping of the Portuguese Civil War; Strange triumph: emigrado factional conflict, military victory, and the end of the Civil War; Part III; The international context of the Portuguese Civil War: British foreign policy, Spanish domestic politics, multinational financi.

5 After Brazil, after Civil War.

A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.

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