Designing Brazil

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.

Autorentext

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 Universität, Berlin, where he inaugurated the Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Chair in Brazilian Studies.

Inhalt

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: João 13. José 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. José Bonifácio, architect of chimeras Conclusion: A country for the few