Goodbye, Lord Portugal - by Rafael Cariello

A new and original history of Independence, based on rigorous research and extensive dialogue with historiography. In the first decades of the 19th century, the Portuguese Empire witnessed a profound worsening of its fiscal deficit. The increase in expenses, mainly in military spending, had constrained the budgets of several European monarchies since the 18th century, and would be no different in the Portuguese case, after the start of the Napoleonic Wars and, a little later, the transfer of the royal family to Rio. of January. The lack of payments for civil servants and military personnel and the rampant issuance of paper money, which generated inflation and severely impacted food prices, made up the source of dissatisfaction among D.'s subjects. João VI in Portugal and Brazil at the end of the 1810s. The discount 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 call into question the absolutism of D. 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 historic 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, Adeus, Senhor Portugal offers a broad interpretation of the Brazilian emancipatory process, relating the tenets