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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Spanish Empire
- Part II Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
- 16 Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World
- 17 Portugal’s Social and Political Change from the Ancien Régime to Liberalism
- 18 Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy
- 19 Building New Brazilian Institutions
- 20 Slaves, Indians, and the “Classes of Color”: Popular Participation in Brazilian Independence
- 21 Brazil and the Independence of Spanish America: Parallel Trajectories, Linked Processes (1807–1825)
- 22 Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817–1825)
- Index
16 - Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World
from Part II - Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2023
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume III
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I The Spanish Empire
- Part II Brazil, Portugal, and Africa
- 16 Overview: The Independence Era in the Luso-Brazilian World
- 17 Portugal’s Social and Political Change from the Ancien Régime to Liberalism
- 18 Conservative Tracks toward Independence: Transfer of the Court to Rio de Janeiro, the Porto Revolution, and Brazilian Autonomy
- 19 Building New Brazilian Institutions
- 20 Slaves, Indians, and the “Classes of Color”: Popular Participation in Brazilian Independence
- 21 Brazil and the Independence of Spanish America: Parallel Trajectories, Linked Processes (1807–1825)
- 22 Waves of Sedition across the Atlantic: Liberal Politics in Angola in the Wake of Brazilian Independence (c. 1817–1825)
- Index
Summary
This chapter offers an overview of the Luso-Brazilian World in the Age of Revolutions. It surveys key episodes culminating in the independence of Brazil, including the transfer of the Portuguese Court from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, the Napoleonic invasion of Portugal and its long-term political implications, the creation of a Reino Unido (United Kingdom) from 1815 and the resistance that this reconfiguration of the Portuguese empire provoked. The chapter then traces the impact of the 1820 liberal revolution in Portugal, which sought not only to establish a constitutional monarchy, but to return the seat of the monarchy to the Peninsula. This effort to return to the status quo ex ante was rejected in Brazil and precipitated independence. Far from a denouement, however, Portugal and Brazil continued to influence each other’s political evolution in the aftermath of formal empire.
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- The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions , pp. 429 - 449Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023