Interesting thought, having a monarchy in the Americas, Im sure itd be something along the lines of what the European Monarchies have today, basically irrelevant figureheads.
The Brazilian Empire center of power was concentrated on Rio. The republican elites came from states like São Paulo, where they couldn’t vote for those in power in their own province. If the monarchy were to survive, it would have to decentralized its power and let people vote for their own governors and mayors.
Also, it would have to rein in the military, since they’d need their support to fight the landowner revolts after ending slavery.
If Brazil managed to keep it and decentralize the power, keeping a central Government with a leader of the class of Dom Pedro II, it would be a much better country now probably.
What would affect? Not so much, what really matters was before the fall of Branganças (Bolivia offering itself to be part of Brazil, the war of Paraguay and Brazil/Argentina conflict that gave born to Uruguay.) After war of Paraguay the region went on peace in terms of neighbors’ conflict.
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Interesting thought, having a monarchy in the Americas, Im sure itd be something along the lines of what the European Monarchies have today, basically irrelevant figureheads.
Hard to say
Pedro II was very well liked as a ruler and his deposition was not really popular with the public
Then again we saw in the 20th century what happened to monarchies and autocratic regimes across the world
The Brazilian Empire center of power was concentrated on Rio. The republican elites came from states like São Paulo, where they couldn’t vote for those in power in their own province. If the monarchy were to survive, it would have to decentralized its power and let people vote for their own governors and mayors.
Also, it would have to rein in the military, since they’d need their support to fight the landowner revolts after ending slavery.
Modern day Habsburg mexico and brazil under dom pedro II’s descendants would be so peak
If Brazil managed to keep it and decentralize the power, keeping a central Government with a leader of the class of Dom Pedro II, it would be a much better country now probably.
What would affect? Not so much, what really matters was before the fall of Branganças (Bolivia offering itself to be part of Brazil, the war of Paraguay and Brazil/Argentina conflict that gave born to Uruguay.) After war of Paraguay the region went on peace in terms of neighbors’ conflict.