Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Informal Empire, Arbitration, and the Durability of an Asymmetrical Alliance

Anglo-Portuguese Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Informal Empire, Arbitration, and the Durability of an Asymmetrical Alliance *:



published in the English Historical Review (2020)

Demotic and “democratic” languages in post-independence Brazil, 1822-48

Demotic and “democratic” languages in post-independence Brazil, 1822-48: (2020). Demotic and “democratic” languages in post-independence Brazil, 1822-48. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. Ahead of Print.

Oxford Latin American Centre event (June 2020)

Tertúlia

at the Latin American History Seminar

Abolitionism and Politics

in Imperial Brazil

Jeffrey Needell, University of Florida, Gainesville,

Gabe Paquette, University of Oregon

 

This event will take place on Zoom

Please email paola.quevedogarzon@area.ox.ac.uk with your e-mail address so we can register you. ***The deadline to register is 18th of June at 12:00 noon.

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Jeffrey D. Needell is Professor of History and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. He is the author of A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987) and The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 (2006), and is the editor of Emergent Brazil: Key Perspectives on a New Global Power (2015).  His most recent book and focus of this Tertúlia, The Sacred Cause.  The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro, was published by Stanford University Press earlier this year.

Gabe Paquette is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. Paquette previously held research and teaching posts at the University of Cambridge, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and, for almost a decade, The Johns Hopkins University, where he was also Director of the Program in Latin American Studies. Paquette's research focuses on aspects of European, Latin American, and International History. His most recent book, The European Seaborne Empires: From the Thirty Years' War to the Age of Revolutions, was published in 2019.

Spain and the American Revolution at APS (May 2020)

Book Talk at American Philosophical Society (May 2020)

The David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is pleased to welcome Dr. Gabriel Paquette and Dr. Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia to discuss their co-edited book Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives. The discussion will be moderated by Dr. Patrick Spero, Librarian and Director of the APS Library & Museum.