Pombal and the Nationalization of the Luso-Brazilian Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2770542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth R Maxwell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1968 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 608 |
| Publication date | 1968-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2510901 |
| OpenAlex | W4243035124 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
N late July 1750, amid multifarious relies, lulled by assorted chanting ecclesiastics, John V, a moribund Portuguese Roi Soleil, at last expired. Within three days after the accession of Joseph I, a new force had begun to control affairs of state-Sebastido Jose Carvalho e Mello, later to be the Marquis of Pombal. Hardworking, taciturn, inquisitive, Carvalho e Mello had been Portuguese minister in London, then special envoy at Vienna. Though Luis da Cunha, delegate to the Utrecht treaty negotiations and ambassador in Paris, recommended him for his patient and speculative temperament, others were not so complimentary.1 The British diplomat Benjamin Keene wrote: It is a poor Coimbrian pate as ever I met with, to be as stubborn, as dull, is the true asinine quality. I shall only say that a little genius who has a mind to be a great one in a little country, is a very uneasy animal. Y 2 Fifty years old at the accession of Joseph, the new minister belonged to a generation of open-minded officials and diplomats who had given much thought to the imperial organization and the mercantilist techniques which, they believed, lay behind the growing power and wealth of France and Great Britain.3 Carvalho e Mello had written in 1742 that all the nations of Europe are today augmenting themselves by reciprocal imitation, each carefully watching
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From Growth to Collapse
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Centros e periferias no mundo luso-brasileiro,1500-1808
Vestindo o escravismo
Riding a wave
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,37 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2021 (47) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |