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Abstract
The Author sketches an assessment of the last two decades of constitu-
tional history of the early modern period, checking the current sustainabi-
lity of the approach on which was based the innovative historiography of
the ‘70s, which stood for the plurality and composite nature of the “corpo-
rative” polities. Reacting to a recent book of the Brazilian historian Laura
de Mello e Souza (USP), he argues that such a pluralistic and decentralized
political model shall also be applied to the colonial societies; the resulting
being the emphasizing of local political agency and the multi-leveled and
entangled pattern of governance of the so-called “colonial Empires”, a topic
on which the most recent colonial historiography is conveying.
Palavras-chave
Estado / formas de governo, centralismo, Império português, história
política
Keywords
State / forms of government, centralism, Portuguese Empire, political
history