Author: Neill MacaulayPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822306818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
Dom Pedro
Author: Neill MacaulayPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822306818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
Every Inch a King
Author: Sergio Correa da CostaPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125170
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the biography of one of the most colourful and dashing young monarchs who ever lived. His shortcomings—impulsiveness, quick temper, weakness for women—were offset by his truly generous nature. He became a surprising liberal, the only reigning monarch to defy and outwit Metternich, “the evil genius of the reaction,” and he was at one time offered the thrones of Spain and Greece. With a mad grandmother, a mother whose lovers and political intrigues were a court scandal, and a father who had little time to spare for his upbringing, Dom Pedro grew up in a dislocated family who had fled to the Portuguese colony of Brazil just before Napoleon’s armies overran the mother country. Formally uneducated, but brilliantly informed and acute, he separated the colony from Portugal and moulded it into a new nation, only to run counter to the still rising revolutionary tide and to abdicate his throne. Later he was to lead liberal-republican armies into Portugal itself and to secure the throne for his daughter, Maria da Gloria. This exciting story is told as only an artist in words could tell it, with an accuracy of detail and a wealth of colour and emotion that give the book a unique place among recent biographies. Throughout its pages, Brazilian history is related against a larger background in which England, Austria, Greece, Russia, the United States and Spain played important roles. Samuel Putnam, noted for his brilliant English version of Don Quixote, has translated the book into English.
Every Inch a King
Author: Sergio Corrêa da CostaPublisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Every Inch a King
Author: Sérgio Corrêa da CostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil
Author: Mary Wilhelmine WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First published in 1967
Citizen Emperor
Author: Roderick J. BarmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804744003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
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.
Dom Pedro I, Founder of the Brazilian Empire
Author: Sergio Corrêa da CostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Brazil
Author: Thomas E. SkidmorePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195374551
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This second edition offers an unparallelled look at Brazil in the twentieth century, including in-depth coverage of the 1930 revolution and Vargas's rise to power; the ensuing unstable democratic period and the military coups that followed; and the reemergence of democracy in 1985. It concludes with the recent presidency of Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, covering such economic successes as record-setting exports, dramatic foreign debt reduction, and improved income distribution. The second edition features numerous new images and a new bibliographic guide to recent works on Brazilian history for use by both instructors and students. Informed by the most recent scholarship available, Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, Second Edition, explores the country's many blessings--ethnic diversity, racial democracy, a vibrant cultural life, and a wealth of natural resources.
Dom Pedro I
Author: Sérgio Corrêa da CostaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Emperor's Beard
Author: Lilia Moritz SchwarczPublisher: Hill & Wang
ISBN: 9780809042197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Traces the origins and history of the Brazilian monarchy, the contrast between the empire in Brazil and the trend of establishing republics throughout the New World, and the impact of the reign of Dom Pedro II on the evolution of modern Brazil.