Thе Pаrty of Ordеr: Thе Consеrvаtivеs, thе Stаtе, аnd Slаvеry in thе Brаziliаn Monаrchy, 1831-1871
Publisher: Stаnford Univеrsity Prеss
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2006-08-11
List price: $80.00
This study analyzes Brazil’s monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionally based on African slavery. It focuses upon the Conservatives, who represented the sugar and coffee elites in reconstructing the new nation’s state as a strong, representative, constitutional monarchy in troubled times. After the monarch himself assumed power, however, his views undercut parliamentary and party government, which were also sapped by regional differences and the pressure for state patronage. Increasingly, the emperor and his cabinet...