Opúsculos por Alexandre Herculano - Tomo 04

The volume assembles two interconnected public writings: a sustained legal and social analysis of the institution of entailed property, weighing its advantages and disadvantages and examining the practical difficulties of abolishing it at once; and a series of candid letters addressed to a contemporary public official that argue against prevailing positions on emigration to the Americas, replying to objections and extending the original arguments. Both pieces preserve the author's original doctrinal statements and dates, combine legal, economic, and social reasoning, and illustrate consistent, often controversial, engagement with policy debates about agriculture, labor, and national reform.