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  • 13 - Portugal and Brazil: imperial re-organization, 1750–1808

  • from PART TWO - EUROPE AND AMERICA
  • Edited by Leslie Bethell
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Latin America
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    06 December 1984, pp 469-508

  • Summary

    This chapter provides a survey of the Portuguese empire which shows how accurate Luís da Cunha's statement remained at the accession of Dom José I in 1750, and explains the policy adopted with regard to Brazil during the second half of the eighteenth century. Various Portuguese settlements along the west coast of Africa had been either repeatedly attacked by foreigners or else the scene of local riots, notably in the Cape Verde islands and in Angola. Brazil had suffered two civil wars namely, the War of the Emboabas in the gold mines of the Rio das Mortes, and the War of the Mascates at Recife and two attacks by the Spanish on the outpost of Colônia do Sacramento at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata. The municipalities represented an important sector of the Brazilian born population and were a potential source of conflict with Lisbon.