Beschreibung:
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).
A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire.
Introduction; 1. The reform of empire in the late eighteenth century; 2. From foreign invasion to imperial disintegration; 3. Decolonization's progeny: restoration, disaggregation, and recalibration; 4. The last Atlantic revolution: emigrados, Miguelists, and the Portuguese Civil War; 5. After Brazil, after civil war: the origins of Portugal's African empire; Conclusion: the long shadow of Empire in the Luso-Atlantic world; Bibliography.