Este artigo pretende discutir as conexões e os equilíbrios imperiais e atlânticos da monarquia brigantina setecentista, tomando como tópicos de discussão, por um lado, algumas dimensões do vocabulário social e político e, por outro, as marcas mais salientes dos processos de circulação e estruturação das elites nesse mesmo âmbito. Entre as questões debatidas, destaca-se a da fratura identitária entre reinóis e naturais da América portuguesa no início do século XIX.
this essay constitutes a first attempt to study a theme which, in spite of its enormous importance, has received little historical attention: the evolution of the Portuguese practices of anthroponymy that had a worldwide impact due to Portuguese imperial expansion. the author contrasts the changes that occurred at the turn of the twentieth century to the practices that were prevalent among the Portuguese aristocracy ever since the great changes that took place at the end of the Middle ages.
This article compares and analyzes the sections on Brazil in the 1770, 1774 and 1780 editions of Histoire philosophique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, by Guillaume Thomas François Raynal. The aim is to contrast the ideas disseminated by the current historiography about this eighteenthcentury work, which was the most widely read of its time, with the judgments about Portuguese America that emerge in those editions. In effect, some issues stand out: first, the inhabitants and settlers of this new world, that is, Amerindians, then Blacks and Creole Portuguese -Brazilian-born settlers of Portuguese descent -and finally, its
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