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Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
Regeneração
Portugal's Age of Revolution, 1820-1834
Verlag:
ELC Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P36347141
EAN: 9798235880771
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Nicht auf Lager
Zustellung: Di, 27.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 45.75
Beschreibung
In November 1807, the royal court of Portugal boarded a fleet under British naval escort and sailed across the Atlantic, leaving the metropolitan homeland as a managed dependency under a foreign general. It was an act of dynastic survival that unravelled an empire. The Regeneration of 1820 tells the full story of the political earthquake that followed - from the commercial catastrophe of the asymmetric British trade treaties to the secret conspiracy of Porto lawyers who organised the Liberal Revolution; from the Constituent Cortes that drafted one of Europe's most radical constitutions to the counter-revolutionary fury of Queen Carlota Joaquina and Prince Miguel; from the martyrdom of Gomes Freire de Andrade in 1817 to the naval battle at Cape St. Vincent that decided a civil war; and from the Evoramonte Convention that ended the Liberal Wars to the imperfect constitutional order that emerged from a decade of upheaval. Barrett McMahon traces the human lives behind the constitutional provisions - the merchant families ruined by British imports, the military officers radicalised by years of subordination to a foreign commander, the exiles who built a state in waiting in London and Paris, and the soldiers who held Porto for thirteen months against overwhelming odds. A narrative history of the moment Portugal became modern, and of the contradictions that made modernity so difficult to sustain.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Barrett McMahon
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2026
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 530