Goodbye, Mister Portugal - by Rafael Cariello

A new and original history of Independence, based on rigorous research and broad dialogue with historiography. In the first decades of the 19th century, the Portuguese Empire witnessed a profound worsening of the fiscal deficit. The increase in expenses, mainly in military spending, constrained the budgets of several European monarchies since the 18th century, and it would be no different in the Portuguese case, after the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars and, a little later, the transfer of the royal family to Rio de Janeiro.. The lack of payments to civil and military servants and the unbridled issuance of paper money, which generated inflation and severely impacted food prices, made up the source of dissatisfaction among the subjects of d. João VI in Portugal and Brazil in the late 1810s. The discontent was total. In Pernambuco, the increase in the price of flour had contributed to triggering the revolution of 1817. In Portugal and Brazil, the Liberal Revolution of 1820 and 1821 would challenge the absolutism of. João VI, demanding the adoption of a Constitution that imposed limits on the monarch's discretion in decisions on public spending and tax collection — the culmination of a historical process that, with due differences, had occurred in countries such as France and the United Kingdom. A detailed, original study in constant dialogue with the historiography of the period, Goodbye, Mr. Portugal offers a broad interpretation of the Brazilian emancipatory process, relating the tendencies