부산대학교 도서관

The paper presents the international and national context frame leading to the transfer of the Portuguese Court and capital to Rio de Janeiro in 1807: from the observation of the Anglo French conflicts to the analysis of the effective ability to resist and from the policy of neutrality to the Atlantic option with the British ally. It analysis the re-creation of the administrative central and government structure in Brazil. Finally, it studies the reorganization of the Regency in Lisbon and the debate on its nature, composition and power, as well as the ways of decision making, in the initial stage of the Peninsular War, of the British presence and of the long distance from the sovereign.