Author: Sérgio Corrêa da Costa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dom Pedro I
Author: Sérgio Corrêa da Costa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil
Author: Mary Wilhelmine Williams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1967, This biography of Dom Pedro's reign tells how he met the problems arising from relations with the neighboring South American states, the premature political system of his own country, the struggle between church and state, the abolition of slavery, and the fostering of education. He died in exile after ruling Brazil for nearly fifty years but is ranked among the finest personalities of his time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
First published in 1967, This biography of Dom Pedro's reign tells how he met the problems arising from relations with the neighboring South American states, the premature political system of his own country, the struggle between church and state, the abolition of slavery, and the fostering of education. He died in exile after ruling Brazil for nearly fifty years but is ranked among the finest personalities of his time.
Dom Pedro
Author: Neill Macaulay
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Costa
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Dom Pedro I, Founder of the Brazilian Empire
Author: Sergio Corrêa da Costa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Every Inch a King
Author: Sergio Corrêa da Costa
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Citizen Emperor
Author: Roderick J. Barman
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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: Sérgio Correa da Costa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
The Emperor's Beard
Author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Dom Pedro I: Founder of the Brazilian Empire
Author: Sérgio Corrêa da Costa
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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