The aim of this article is to discuss the imperial and Atlantic connections and balance in the monarchy of the Bragança dynasty in the XVIII century focusing, on one side, some dimensions of the social and political vocabulary and, on the other, the outstanding processes of circulation and formation of the elite groups. One of the major issues discussed is the identity fractures between the European and the American born social actors in the beginning of the XIX century.
Colony; Elites; Identities