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The Brazilian empire : myths & histories
Da monarquia à república. English
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- Creator
- Emilia Viotti da Costa
- Format
- Books
- Languages
- English, Portuguese
- Publication
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- Revised edition
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2000
- Physical Details
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- xxvii, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780807848401, 0807848409
- OCLC
- ocm42022350
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-306) and index.
- 1. Independence: The Building of a Nation -- 2. Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva: A Brazilian Founding Father -- 3. Liberalism: Theory and Practice -- 4. Land Policies: The Land Law 1850, and the Homestead Act, 1862 -- 5. Sharecroppers and Plantation Owners: An Experiment with Free Labor -- 6. Masters and Slaves: From Slave Labor to Free Labor -- 7. Town and Country -- 8. The Fall of the Monarchy -- 9. The Myth of Racial Democracy: A Legacy of the Empire -- 10. Patriarchalism and the Myth of the Helpless Woman in the Nineteenth Century