{"id":707,"date":"2020-06-16T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/?p=707"},"modified":"2026-04-10T15:08:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:08:26","slug":"week-4-the-new-republic-and-the-beginning-of-anglo-u-s-disputes-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/en\/week-4-the-new-republic-and-the-beginning-of-anglo-u-s-disputes-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 4 – The New Republic and the Beginning of Anglo-U.S. Disputes in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Revolta da Armada, Eduardo Martino, 1893<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(<\/span>L’Univers illustr\u00e9<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>Levy<\/span><\/a> (Paris), n\u00ba 2.029, 10 February 1894).<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brazil\u2019s young republic didn\u2019t have a smooth beginning. Fears of internal turmoil early on motivated the United States\u2019 choice to delay its official recognition of the new republic. Because Dom Pedro II was well regarded by American thinkers and politicians, many chose not to declare support for the new regime right away, instead opting to observe whether the Brazilian people actually supported and considered the regime to be legitimate. This was cause for some partisan debate in the United States. Eventually, however, the U.S. Congress did recognize Brazil. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several years later, a revolt led by Brazilian Navy officials against President Floriano Peixoto (1891-94) thrust the governments of Brazil, the United States, and the United Kingdom into diplomatic turmoil. The young republic asserted its sovereignty and showed mastery of the tools of international pressure as the two superpowers attempted to influence its domestic politics. Brazil\u2019s diplomatic muscle was also on display in the trade treatises it signed, and also into those it chose not to make. The United States, eager to build friendly relations with Brazil, made a trade treaty with significant concessions. This concerned the United Kingdom\u2019s leaders as they worried about losing their space as the Latin American country\u2019s primary international partner, and motivated them to seek new trade deals. Still, Brazil asserted its stance to not make concessions to the European power. In all these instances, it became clear that Brazil and its elites were articulating and expressing their economic and political interests in the international arena.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Readings:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Smith, \u201cLimits of Diplomatic Influence: Brazil versus Britain and the United States, 1886-1894.\u201d | <\/span>English<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fred Rippy, \u201cThe United States and the Establishment of the Republic of Brazil\u201d | English<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documents:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grover Cleveland, \u201cState of the Union Address\u201d, December 4th, 1893. | <\/span>English<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further readings: <\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texto Completo, \u201cA Diplomacia do Marechal\u201d, Sergio Corr\u00eaa da Costa | <\/span>Portugu\u00eas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Revolta da Armada, Eduardo Martino, 1893 (L’Univers illustr\u00e9, Levy (Paris), n\u00ba 2.029, 10 February 1894). Brazil\u2019s young republic didn\u2019t have a smooth beginning. Fears of internal turmoil early on motivated the United States\u2019 choice to delay its official recognition of the new republic. Because Dom Pedro II was well regarded by American thinkers and politicians, … Week 4 – The New Republic and the Beginning of Anglo-U.S. Disputes in Brazil<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1168,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/openingthearchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}