Monica Duarte Dantas

• Abstract

  Honório Hermeto Carneiro Leão (1801-1856) was one of the most eminent politicians of the Conservative Party of Brazilian monarchical period. He was honored with the titles of viscount and marquis of Paraná in 1852 and 1854, respectively. The apex of his career was the chair of the Conciliation Cabinet, between 1853 and 1856. The political career of Carneiro Leão since 1842 is the main sub…

  Conciliate the empire: imperial politics and Marquês of Paraná (1842-1856), PUB.LVR.BR

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  Between the years of 1808 and 1814, the Spanish Empire went through an extremely important period in its political history. Facing the power vacuum brought on by the capture of the legitimate monarch, Ferdinand VII, and the coronation of Joseph Bonapart, due to the French occupation, the Spanish people saw themselves immersed in a great crisis. Those who wouldn't abide by the orders of th…

  The crisis of the Spanish Ancient Régime and the formation of the Antiliberals (1808-1814), BP.DR

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  This research focuses on the implementation of the prison system in the Brazilian Empire while the 1830 Criminal Code of the Empire was in force. We seek to understand which strategies were planned and executed by the government in relation to the prison system, and observe how other policies undertaken - law of leasing services, recruitment, establishing colonies and military prisons, am…

  The prison system in the Brazilian Empire: study on the provinces of São Paulo, Pernambuco and Mato Grosso (1835-1890), BP.DR

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  Paulino José Soares de Souza, viscount of Uruguay acted strongly in the context of Brazil's foreign policy Empire in the period between 1849 and 1865. Despite having already occupied the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1843 and 1844 is only starting his second term at the head of that's affairs is visible the adoption of a more active foreign policy. Much of the historiography conside…

  "Make ourselves strong, important, and well-known": the Viscount of Uruguay and the international law in America (1849-1865), BP.DR

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• Abstract

  In 1830 and 1832 the recently independent Brazilian Empire promulgated its first two codes, a Criminal Code and a Code of Criminal Procedure. Those diplomas duly embraced some then widely spread maxima (dating back to the middle of the 18th century) concerning Penal Laws and Citizen's rights to a fair trial and full defence. In recent studies I was able to illuminate many aspects regardi…

  Crimes, punishments and due process: ideas, texts and individuals travelling across the Atlantic: Brazil and the United States in the 1820s and 1830s, BE.PQ

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  This project presents the justification of the need for an internship overseas research that enables the expansion of sources and interpretations developed by research of Master titled A general politics: Luis Alves de Lima e Silva and consolidation of the imperial state (1846 - 1862), supported by FAPESP since February 2013. Although not expected in the original proposal stage, the new p…

  Caxias and the River Plate: politics and war (1851-1852) documentary and bibliografical researches in Argentineans archives, BE.EP.MS

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  Scholars specialized in 19th century Brazilian history all agree that the 1832 Code of Criminal Procedure and the law that subsequently reformed it are of major importance for the understanding of Brazilian politics during the formation of the Nation-State. However, despite theoretical differences among those who mentioned or directly studied the content or impact of both laws, the schol…

  The criminal code of procedure and the 1841 law of reform: legislative debates and foreign influences in the dispute to establish different forms of state organization, BE.PQ