Topic 6: The Monarchical Experience (1822-1889)

6.1 THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRST EMPIRE

• Colonial persistence

• Political reorganization: the constitution of 1824

• The socio-economic organization

• The regency period (1831 – 1840)

6.2 THE SECOND EMPIRE: STABILITY AND CHANGES

• Economic changes in the coffee plantation (the growth of coffee production in the Paraiba valley)

• The slave system at stake (international and domestic challenges, the abolition)

• The new coffee frontier: São Paulo (new labor force, new techniques)

• Modernization? (1850): Challenging ideas to the political and economic order (abolitionism, republican aspirations and new relations)

• D. Pedro II and his foreign policy: The Paraguay War (1864-1870)

• Paths to the proclamation of the Republic (1889)