IFCH Professor launches English edition of new work on Colonial Brazil

The historian Jurandir Malerba , professor of the IFCH-UFRGS Department of History, has just published, by Routledge, the book . This is the 1st edition, fully in English , with 290 pages, available in ebook since 29 June 2025 (ISBN Ebook 978100362299; 10.4324/9781003622994). The work is part of the series “Latin American History in Translation” and was released in New York.

The volume presents historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal , examining the projects formulated by illustrated statesmen to the US territory-initially as a colony and, as a future independent state. Supported in primary sources and dialogue with classical and contemporary historiography, the author goes through the period from Pombaline Reforms to Independence, contextualizing it in Atlantic Liberal Revolutions, Napoleonic Wars and Hegemony Disputes in the Southern Cone. The book illuminates the formation of the Luso-Brazilian manorial class and its agendas for the construction of the country, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering subsidies, offering for current debates about Brazil. Routledge.com

Returned to researchers and researchers from Brazil, Latin American and humanities, the title reinforces the international circulation of IFCH-linked academic production.

For access to ebook and other editorial information, see the Routledge website through the AUI above.