Multicontinental Monarchy and Republics: reflections on Portuguese Latin America in the XVI-XVIII century

Multicontinental Monarchy and Republics: reflections on Portuguese Latin America in the XVI-XVIII century This article corresponds to a collection of fragments of the texts I have been writing with Maria de Fatima Silva Gouvea since 2006. It contains, for the most part, some pieces of the research projects submitted to various Brazilian research promotion agencies, or publications still in the press. Anyway, they are unpublished texts in which we have developed the self-government notion that is part of the corporate concept of society, as a theoretical tool for understanding the social organization in the Portuguese colonial America; or else the concept of government networks during the overseas empire, an analysis tool dear to Fatima Gouvea; and it is concluded with the notion of multicontinental monarchy originally formulated by Nuno Goncalo Monteiro.