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)

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