Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)

This article analyses the sources produced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by authorities in Portuguese America who have sent their doubts to the Overseas Council and to the Portuguese Crown on different aspects / issues related to the administration. Such uncertainties convey significan...

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Main Author: Roberta Stumpf
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Language:English
Published: UMR 5136- France, Amériques, Espagne – Sociétés, Pouvoirs, Acteurs (FRAMESPA) 2019-01-01
Series:Les Cahiers de Framespa
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/5647
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description This article analyses the sources produced in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by authorities in Portuguese America who have sent their doubts to the Overseas Council and to the Portuguese Crown on different aspects / issues related to the administration. Such uncertainties convey significant dimensions of political communication between the two segments and, after all, a component of negotiation between them. Existing administrative practices and the use of doubt vested the royal agents with argumentative tools that broadened their power of interlocution. From the analysis of a number of cases, we can observe the different motivations of the officers who were behind this communication such as fear of making mistakes and the deliberate intention of resisting orders.
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Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
Les Cahiers de Framespa
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Portuguese administration
distance
control
negotiation
title Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
title_full Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
title_fullStr Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
title_full_unstemmed Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
title_short Sobre as dúvidas que as autoridades na América portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa. Uma reflexão sobre a prática e a comunicação políticas (c. 1600-c. 1750)
title_sort sobre as duvidas que as autoridades na america portuguesa ofereciam ao centro da monarquia portuguesa uma reflexao sobre a pratica e a comunicacao politicas c 1600 c 1750
topic seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Portuguese administration
distance
control
negotiation
url https://journals.openedition.org/framespa/5647
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