Maxwell Conflicts and Conspiracies

Brazil and Portugal, 1750-1808
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-93081-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maxwell, Kenneth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
1: Dispositions
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo - the Luso-Brazilian commercial system - the British Factory - free traders and contrabandists - new measures - opposition - privileged trading companies - nationalization- Jesuits - the chosen collaborators.
2: Change
The international situation - fears of British power - the development of the northeast - reforms - the juntas da fazenda - economic crisis - the contraction of British trade - industrial development - the privileged established interests.
3: Divergence
Growing tensions - laxity in Minas Gerais - the Diamond District - the contracts - the fall of Pombal - extinction of the companies- debilitation of the role of the Royal Treasury - nobles and businessmen- neo-mercantilism - subversion.
4: Confrontation
Minas Gerais - the regional economy - society - the élite - distinctive solutions - patronage disputes - alienation- Melo e Castro - a classical conflict.
5: Conspiracy
The tactics of revolt - the activists - the ideologues - the financial interests - the program - disagreements - nativism - social conservatism - the plot.
6: Skulduggery
The suspension of the derrama - the coalition in disarray - loyalists - arrest in Rio de Janiero - the devassas - the death of Cláudio Manuel da Costa - Manitti - the viceroy and the governor - the contractors escape incrimination.
7: Crisis
The records in Lisbon - the British - diplomatic successes - Melo e Castro - the alçada - the scapegoat - dangerous sleeping dogs - the sentence - the hanging of Tiradentes - a double failure.
8: Compromise
Dom Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho - proposals for reform - a federative empire - dearth and prosperity- the Bahian mulattoes - opposition - the choice - the dénouement.
Maps
Statistical Appendix
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Kenneth Maxwell holds the Nelson and David Rockefeller Chair in Inter-American Studies at the Council of Foriegn Relations. He has taught at Yale, Princeton and Columbia Universities and the University of Kansas. Dr. Maxwell's recent books include Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues (2003), The Making of Portuguese Democracy (1995) and Pombal: Paradox of the Enlightenment (1995).