The Oligarchical Moment: The Institutional Construction of the Brazilian Republic (1870-1891)

Authors

  • Christian Edward Cyril Lynch Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Río de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i12.304

Keywords:

Brazilian political thought, First Republic, Republican propaganda, Brazilian First Constitutional Convention

Abstract

The political practice of the First Republic deeply frustrated all waiting for the advent of a golden era of Brazilian democracy. Although historians explain this disappointment from a hypothetical perversion of the liberal Republican project, by conservative politicians, we must ask whether the project Republican victory in 1889 was not aristocratic in their own general assumptions. The paper aims to highlight the characteristics of the aristocratic/oligarchic republican propaganda, relating them to the public debate between liberals and conservatives during the constitutional process of 1889-1891.

Submission Date: 7/09/2010

Acceptance Date: 8/10/2010

 

Author Biography

Christian Edward Cyril Lynch, Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Río de Janeiro

Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por el Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Río de Janeiro, IUPERJ-Tec, Río de Janeiro, Brasil, y profesor e investigador de la referida materia en varias universidades brasileñas: Universidade Gama Filho – UGF; Universidade Federal Fluminense – UFF; Instituto Universitário de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro - IUPERJ-Tec; Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro - PUC-Rio; y, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro – UNIRIO, entre otras.

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Issue

No. 12 (2011): Historia Constitucional N. 12 (2011)

Section

Iberoamerica

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