The Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro and Napoleon’s Black Legend

Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva

Institute of European Studies, Working Paper Series from Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Napoleon and the European war were not the primary concerns of Brazil's inhabitants. They had their own agenda and saw the British as their mercantile competitors. Most of all they resented the 1810 treaty of alliance and the article on the abolition of slave trade. Not even a a Constitution was asked for in Brazil because Brazilians were happy enough with the presence of the royal family to think of a change in government. The paper was presented at the conference on The End of the Old Regime in the Iberian World sponsored by the Spanish Studies Program and the Portuguese Studies Program of UC Berkeley on February 8-9, 2008.

Keywords: conferences; culture; European studies; Institute of European studies; international; society; working paper (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-02-18
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