"Povo" e "povos" no mundo ibero-americano, 1750-1850: entre velhos e novos sentidos

• Autores: Fatima Sá, Melo Ferreira
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 45, 2008, págs. 246-273
• Idioma: portugués
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  • This article is based on the texts about the concept of "people/peoples" within the project "Iberconceptos". It presents a comparative study of the semantic changes of this concept in nine countries of the Iberian Atlantic world between 1750 and 1850. The most important caesura in the evolution of the use of the concept - moving it from the margins to the centre of the political vocabulary - are the years 1808-1810, when the Napoleonic invasions lead to the abdiction of the Spanish king, the exile of the Portuguese court and king in Brazil, and the beginning of the independence movements in Spanish America as effect of the kingdom's acephaly. In the wake of these events, the double concept "povo"/"povos" functions as a legitimising factor of the political transformations towards representative regimes. The often conflictual use of the concept in its singular and plural forms is particularly revealing in Spanish America with its socially and ethnically diverse societies and the struggle between centralistic and federal projects.