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The Enlightenment and the fight against despotism in Brazil

2019, Resilience and Transformation in the territories of low demographic density: studies in honnour of Prof. José Bayolo Pacheco de Amorim, on occasion of the establishment of the UNESCO-IPT Chair on Humanities and Cultural Integrated Landscape Management (Org. by Oosterbeek, Luiz; Caron, Laurent)

Nowadays, the Judiciary Power in Brazil plays a very important political role. All this current scenario makes us think about what happened at the end of the Brazilian colonial period and at the beginning of the imperial period.