Miriam Dolhnikoff

• Abstract

  This project is part of a broader research on the representative government in the 19th century Brazil. Considering the key features of this phenomenon in the 19th century,the main hypothesis in here is that the Brazilian representative model was indeed able towork as a mediator between state and society. This statement challenges the usual explanation the historiography has being working…

  Representative government and Brazilian electoral legislation in the 19th century, AP.R

• Abstract

  This research aims to analyze the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies on the nineteen century through the political science theory of representation. Regarding the representative regime models in Europe and United States on that period, the main hypothesis is that the Brazilian regime was similar than those ones. The relevance of this hypothesis is to consider the chamber as an autonomous forum…

  Political Representation (Brazil, 19th Century), AP.R

• Abstract

  This project aims to continue and deepen the study developed during the PhD, whose objective was to analyze the crisis of Brazilian slavery in a global perspective between the period that goes from the American Civil War (1861-1865) to the formation of the national abolitionist movement (1879-1880). Its main purpose is, therefore, to extend the time spam until the abolition of Brazilian s…

  Between the global and the local: the abolition of slavery in the Brazilian Empire, 1880-1888, BP.PD

• Abstract

  This project's objective is to study the political debate, in the various institutions of the Brazilian Empire, about the relations between Brazil and the Platine nations - Argentina, Parguay and Uruguay - during the decade of 1840, especially concerning the decision of intervening in 1851 in the so called "Guerra Grande", a conflict that had started as a civil war in Uruguay and rapidly …

  The foreign policy of the Brazilian Empire and the War against Oribe and Rosas: a study about the debates of the 1851 intervention, BP.MS

• Abstract

  The research proposed in this project aims to analyze the discussion on the emancipation policy, focusing on discussions about the release of the womb developed between 1867 and 1871. The goal is to study the political game, as played by deputies, senators, Ministers, Councilors of State and of the Emperor that due to national and international pressures resumed slavery as one of the Gove…

  Free Womb Law: the debate in Parliament and in the press, BP.MS

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