Pombal, Paradox of the EnlightenmentCUP Archive, 16. märts 1995 - 200 pages This is the first major study in English for over half a century of one of Portugal's most important historical figures, Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, marquês de Pombal (1699-1782). He is best known today as the key figure in the reconstruction of Lisbon after the devastating earthquake of 1755. Pombal's achievements however went far beyond the reconstruction of the capital. An unusually single-minded and ruthless first minister, he was also one of the eighteenth century's most successful 'enlightened despots': for example, he reformed the Portugese system of education, began the process whereby the Jesuits were expelled from Portugal after their suppression by the Pope in 1773, and mounted a formidable challenge to British commercial hegemony in Portugal. Recent renewed interest in the theory of enlightened absolutism has tended to ignore developments in the Iberian peninsula. This book is therefore essential to a full understanding of the complexities and paradoxes of enlightened rulership in a southern European context. |
Contents
Dom Luís da Cunha Biblioteca Nacional Lisbon | 15 |
Topographic plan of Lisbon by Eugénio dos Santos and Carlos | 18 |
The Lisbon earthquake | 21 |
The gaiola the Lisbon earthquakeproof frame required | 27 |
The Pombaline Praça do Comércio and Baixa | 33 |
The Golden Age and its consequences | 37 |
The launching of the caravel Lampadoza with the court | 41 |
Action in the national interest | 51 |
The chemistry laboratory of the University of Coimbra designed | 104 |
War and empire III | 111 |
a the Bahia regiment of black soldiers | 119 |
Diamond works in Brazil | 122 |
Goa from a painting of the late eighteenth century artist unknown | 129 |
Public interest and private profit | 131 |
A porcelain figure from the Rato factory late 1760s Museu | 135 |
Tureen and stand with the arms of Inácio da Cruz Sobral 1725 | 141 |
Gold mining in Brazil | 57 |
Collaborators and conspirators | 69 |
a scene near the riverfront late nineteenth century | 73 |
The execution of those convicted of the assassination attempt | 80 |
Reform | 87 |
Procession of the Inquisition through the Rossio Lisbon | 92 |
3235 | 98 |
The legacy | 149 |
Dom José I | 150 |
The Lisbon town house of a merchant businessman of the late | 157 |
The Estrela church Lisbon built by Dona Maria I from | 165 |
Bibliographical essay | 167 |
Glossary | 187 |
Common terms and phrases
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