Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Author: Richard Graham

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994-08-01

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 0804723362

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Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.

The Party of Order
The Party of Order

Author: Jeffrey D. Needell

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 9780804768061

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This study focuses on the Brazilian Empire's Conservative Party and its success and failure in constructing a representative, constitutional monarchy to defend a slaveholding plantation society.

Brazil
Brazil

Author: Roderick Barman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1994-02-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 0804765480

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A systematic account of Brazil’s historical development from 1798 to 1852, this book analyzes the process that brought the sprawling Portuguese colonies of the New World into the confines of a single nation-state.

Citizen Emperor
Citizen Emperor

Author: Roderick J. Barman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13: 9780804744003

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In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II's diaries and family papers.