On Expectations - Perspectives on the Crisis of 1889 in Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID3478288
AuthorsFrank Colson (corresponding author)
Year1981
Volume13
Issue2
Pages265-292
Publication date1981-11-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x00013754
OpenAlexW2158746367
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

The crisis of 1889 has long been seen as a turning point in Brazilian history. Because historians have often examined the Second Empire to defend or attack its successor, they have neglected certain aspects of the crisis. Their explanations have stressed that leaders of the minuscule and divided Republican Party took advantage of long standing grievances between senior officers and civilian politicians when they urged an ailing general to depose the monarchy on the 15th of November. They have, therefore, emphasized the role of the army in creating the conditions for a coup d'etat, and its preeminence in the Republic until 1889. In doing so, they have underestimated the powerful economic forces which underpinned the Imperial government. They have also overestimated those which supported the republican leaders of São Paulo, the self-confessed beneficiaries of the coup. Since they have also understated the fluidity of political allegiances in this period, its history has become too narrow and too deterministic, with the army depicted as the engine of 'a change from Ancien Régime to a bourgeois society

Ancien regime · Art · Bourgeoisie · Constitutional monarchy · Economic history · Empire · Government (linguistics) · Monarchy · Period (music) · Political crisis · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Successor cardinal · The Republic · Turning point · Brazilian History and Foreign Policy · History · Law · Urban Development and Societal Issues

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