Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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The Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 830
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The Parliamentary Debates (official Report[s]) ...
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Author: Great Britain. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
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1808: The Flight of the Emperor
Author: Laurentino GomesPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762796669
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs—imprisoned, exiled, executed—Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his deranged mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Until then, no European monarch had ever set foot in the Americas. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit ships. Lice infested some of the vessels, and noble women had to shave their hair and grease their bald heads with antiseptic sulfur. Vermin infested the food, and bacteria contaminated the drinking water. Sickness ran rampant. After landing in Brazil, Prince João liberated the colony from a trade monopoly with Portugal. As explorers mapped the burgeoning nation’s distant regions, the prince authorized the construction of roads, the founding of schools, and the creation of factories, raising Brazil to kingdom status in 1815. Meanwhile, Portugal was suffering the effects of abandonment, war, and famine. Never had the country lost so many people in so little time. Finally, after Napoleon’s fall and over a decade of misery, the Portuguese demanded the return of their king. João sailed back in tears in 1821, and the last chapter of colonial Brazil drew to a close, setting the stage for the strong, independent nation that we know today, changing the New World forever.
The Annual Register
Author: The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 902
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British and Foreign State Papers
Author: Great Britain. Foreign OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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The Provincial Deputation in Mexico
Author: Nettie Lee BensonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292791941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Mexico and the United States each have a constitution and a federal system of government. This fact has led many historians to assume that the Mexican system of government, established in the 1820s, is an imitation of the U.S. model. But it is not. First published in Spanish in 1955 and now translated by the author and amplified with new material, this interpretation of the independence movement tells the true story of Mexico's transition from colonial status to federal state. Benson traces the Mexican government's beginning to events in Spain in 1808–1810, when provincial juntas, or deputations, were established to oppose Napoleon's French rule and govern the provinces of Spain and its New World dominions during the Spanish monarch's imprisonment. It was the provincial deputation, not the United States federal system, that provided the model for the state legislative bodies that were eventually formed after Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821. This finding—the result of years of painstaking archival research—strongly confirms the independence of Mexico's political development from U.S. influence. Its importance to a study of Mexican history cannot be overstated.
Reports from the Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Author: Methodist Episcopal ChurchPublisher:
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Category : Methodist conferences
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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