Pombaline Reforms
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The Pombaline Reforms were a series of reforms between 1750 and 1808 by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal with the goal of making Portugal an economically self-sufficient nation, by means of expanding Brazilian territory, streamlining the administration of colonial Brazil, and through fiscal and economic reforms both in the Colony and in Portugal.
[edit] Preceding Conditions
The economy of Portugal preceding 1750 was a relatively stable one, though it had become dependent on colonial Brazil for much of its economic support, and England for much of its manufacturing support, based on the Methuen Treaty of 1703. The lack of a manufacturing sector in Portugal was only made more into a more imperative problem by the excessive spending on the Portuguese crown, the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake, the expenditures on wars with Spain for Brazilian territory, and the exhaustion of gold mines and diamond mines in Brazil.[1]
[edit] Footnotes and refences
1. Skidmore, Thomas E.. Brazil: Five Centuries of Change. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
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