LLCU 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Portuguese Nobility, Iberian Peninsula, Liberalism In Europe
1 Oct 2016
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Focus on changes to rio brought about by the relocation of portuguese royal court. Situate rio within modernity and globalization of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Focus on brazilian independence and its underlying factors, including the rise of liberalism and the crisis of colonial system. Arrival was spurred by the invasion of iberian peninsula by french troops. Arrival changed position of rio de janeiro globally, inverting metropole-colony distinction. Created economic, political, cultural, spatial, changes in rio de janeiro. Politically: brazilian status was enhanced with the creation of united kingdom of portugal in. Economically: coffee production began manufacturing and brazilian ports were open to. Changes in rio do not represent modernization, or a movement from pre-modern/colonial to modern/capitalist. Rather, city was governed by variety of contradictory social codes that each represented a specific kind of temporality. Temporality of brazilian colonial regime strongly associated with an economic structure based on land property and slavery.
