@article{888152,
      recid = {888152},
      author = {Paquette, Gabriel B.,},
      title = {Imperial Portugal in the age of Atlantic revolutions the  Luso-Brazilian world, c. 1770-1850 / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {Cambridge University Press,},
      address = {Cambridge :},
      pages = {xiv, 450 p. :},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were  torn apart in the Age of Revolution, Portugal steadily  pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European  territories more closely together. Eventually, after a  period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world  also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in  Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind  in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic  World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals  that despite formal separation, the links and relationships  that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical  trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more deeply. From  constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of  slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political  writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they  sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders  on both sides of the Atlantic"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/888152},
}