Imperial Portugal in the age of Atlantic revolutions : the Luso-Brazilian world, c. 1770-1850 / / Gabriel Paquette, the Johns Hopkins University [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463323203321
• Autore: Paquette Gabriel B. <1977->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• ISBN: 1-107-32693-1; 1-107-23718-1; 1-107-33261-3; 1-107-33669-4; 1-107-33337-7; 1-107-33503-5; 1-299-39992-4; 1-107-33586-8; 1-139-23719-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 450 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 909/.0971246907
• Soggetti: Imperialism - History; Revolutions - History; Decolonization - History; Political culture - Portugal - History; Political culture - Brazil - History; Portugal Relations Brazil; Brazil Relations Portugal; Portugal Relations Africa, Portuguese-speaking; Africa, Portuguese-speaking Relations Portugal; Portugal Colonies History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. The reform of empire in the late eighteenth century -- From foreign invasion to imperial disintegration -- 3. Decolonization's progeny: restoration, disaggregation, and ; recalibration -- 4. The last Atlantic revolution: emigrados, Miguelists, and the Portuguese Civil War -- 5. After Brazil, after civil war: the origins of Portugal's African empire -- Conclusion: The long shadow of empire in the Luso-Atlantic world.
• Sommario/riassunto: As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Adapting Nations : National Resilience Between Contemporary Statehood and Identity / / by Alon Helled, Carlo Pala

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910999670203321
• Autore: Helled Alon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025
• ISBN: 3-031-84270-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2025.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XXIX, 212 p. 3 illus.)
• Collana: Political Science and International Studies
• Disciplina: 320.3
• Soggetti: Comparative government; Political sociology; Political science; World politics; Globalization; Comparative Politics; Political Sociology; Political Theory; Political History; Governance and Government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction. Putting National Resilience in Context -- Chapter 1. Why national resilience -- Chapter 2. The Resilience of Nation-States: Between Sociogenetic Fantasy and Juridico-political Institutionalization -- Chapter 3. The classifications and typologies of national resilience -- Chapter 4. Crisis, hysteresis and hybridization of national resilience -- Conclusions: Final Taughts.
• Sommario/riassunto: “This book throws light on the complexities of the ‘national’”. —Aurélie Lacassagne, Université de Hearst, Canada “The authors have properly reinstated the concept of the nation to its intellectual importance.” —David McCrone, University of Edinburgh, UK Nations adapt. Nations are resilient both within and outside the boundaries of statehood. Yet scholarship tends to downplay nationhood, as it focuses on the polity. As a consequence, the investigation of modern societies, though ; usually articulated around the nation-state model, falls into state-centrism, whilst neglecting the other side of the coin. This book initiates an interdisciplinary debate that encourages research in a field that has largely been overlooked in European social and political sciences. The analysis, offered by the authors, reinstates the concept of the 'nation' beyond the traditional, and somewhat dichotomous, schools of thought, hence neither judging the nation as a mere invention nor as a deterministic product of history. The book provides those interested in nationalism with new approaches to exploring national identity and its connection to statehood. By using concepts inspired by political science and sociology, namely habitus, survival unit, polity, hysteresis, and so forth, the different chapters of the volume revitalise the inquiry of the dimensions and features in which the nation and the identification they engender become tools of adaptation in relation to the transformative reality of our own contemporaneity. The authors thus contextualise the latter via the mid-range concept of national resilience at both meso- and macro-levels. Alon Helled is a postdoctoral fellow and adjunct lecturer in the History of International Relations at the University of Turin, Italy. He is also a teaching assistant on the History of Modern Israel and History of the Middle East courses at the University of Florence. Carlo Pala is a political scientist who has taught Political Science and Science of Public Administration at the University of Sassari, section of Nuoro, Department of Law, Italy. He is also an associate fellow at the interdisciplinary laboratory Arènes at the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP), Rennes, France.