Maria de Fátima Silva Gouvêa

Redes de poder na América Portuguesa: O caso dos homens bons do Rio de Janeiro, ca. 1790-1822

The period established between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries has been more frequently studied by historians in the recent years. Rio de Janeiro has been focused as the main site for the genesis of independent Brazil. The debate over the local government workings and the power network located inside this colonial society have been strongly emphasised. This article discuss some of the aspects characterising the local councilmen (homens bons) profile in Rio de Janeiro in the period.

Monarquia pluricontinental e repúblicas: algumas reflexões sobre a América lusa nos séculos XVI-XVIII

Este artigo corresponde a uma reuniao de fragmentos de textos que escrevi com Maria de Fatima Silva Gouvea, desde 2006. Compoe-se, em sua maior parte, de trechos de projetos de pesquisa apresentados a diferentes agencias brasileiras de fomento a pesquisa, ou de publicacoes que ainda se encontram no prelo. De uma forma ou de outra, sao textos ineditos, em que desenvolvemos a ideia de autogoverno, inscrita na concepcao corporativa da sociedade, como ferramenta teorica para a compreensao da organizacao social na America colonial lusa; ou ainda o conceito de redes governativas na gestao do imperio ultramarino, instrumento de analise caro a Fatima Gouvea; e concluimos com a nocao de monarquia pluricontinental, formulada inicialmente por Nuno Goncalo Monteiro.This article corresponds to a collection of fragments of the texts I have been writing with Maria de Fatima Silva Gouvea since 2006. It contains, for the most part, some pieces of the research projects submitted to various Brazilian research promotion agencies, or publications still in the press. Anyway, they are unpublished texts in which we have developed the self-government notion that is part of the corporate concept of society, as a theoretical tool for understanding the social organization in the Portuguese colonial America; or else the concept of government networks during the overseas empire, an analysis tool dear to Fatima Gouvea; and it is concluded with the notion of multicontinental monarchy originally formulated by Nuno Goncalo Monteiro.