Designing Brazil : Colonialism and Governance from the Portuguese Enlightenment to Brazilian Independence (1750–1825) (Paperback)

Foreword, Wim Klooster? Introduction: a bridge to the past??Part 1: Brazil within the Portuguese Empire? 1.?The age of reforms? 2. A new pedagogy? 3. The visible spectrum of lights? 4. The colonial condition? 5. Ideological alignment, science, and political economy? 6. Whose Luso-Brazilian empire?? 7. Reformers? Part 2: The Portuguese Empire in Brazil? 8. War time? 9. A Court in the tropics? 10. Logics of Court? 11. A matter of classes? 12. The character: Joao? 13. Jose da Silva Lisboa, reformer? Part 3: From Portuguese colony to the Empire of Brazil? 14. Independence: passe-partout??15.?Cortes, conspiracies, and clashes? 16. Profile of a man between two eras? 17. Jose Bonifacio, architect of chimeras? Conclusion: A country for the few?