HILA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fixed Cost, Caudillo, Pedro Ii Of Brazil
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Exam essay questions: sarmiento"s facundo had been called the most important text of the nineteenth-century latin. 2nd essay: both liberalist thinkers [sarmineto and boneifacio] similarities: Pro-public education: critic of the church, critic colonial efforts of limiting universities and education in the americas, look into keen"s (1st week) Pro-european immigration: ironically, brazilian immigration is fueled actually by slasve trade and most immigrants are african laborers from west africa 10,000 people a year. Fueled slavery and plantation economy + slave trade. This also allows the ruling family (pedro) to continue their social and political dominance: huge social and political continuity. Pro-free trade signature of mercantilism and liberalism: look into keen"s (1st week) Skepticism about people and possibilities of republicanism: their liberalism is constricted by their anxieties of people, differences: Brazil and argentina look very different after independence: monarchy structure. Monday, february 20, 2017: bonefacio supports a constitutional monarchy why instead of a federalist.