Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century - Couverture souple

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Barman, Roderick J.

 
9780842028462: Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0842028463 ISBN 13 : 9780842028462
Editeur : Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S., 2002

Synopsis

As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state, when her father was required to leave the country for extended periods. On each occasion, she served as the dutiful daughter, following her fathers instructions to the letter and resisting any attempts at personal aggrandizement. During her third regency, as her father recuperated in Europe, rather than accumulate personal power and oppose the forces of republicanism and abolition, Isabel personally led the struggle to pass the Gold Law of 1888 abolishing slavery throughout Brazil, thus ridding the country of one of the institutions upon which traditional monarchical Brazil was based and speeding the downfall of the monarchy, the monarchy she would inherit, in 1889. Princess Isabel of Brazil examines Isabels role as an extraordinary woman who had access to material wealth and education and power, in patriarchal nineteenth-century Brazil. Professor Barman looks at how her life was constrained by her subordinate roles as daughter, wife, mother, and even as empress-in-waiting, using the fascinating career of Isabel to examine the interplay of gender and power in the nineteenth century. This new book is an excellent resource for courses biography, womens studies, and Latin American history courses.

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À propos de l'auteur

Roderick J. Barman has been a member of the history department at the University of British Columbia since 1921. He is the author of Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-1891 (1999), the winner of the 2001 Warren Dean Prize for the best book on Brazilian history.

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Éditeur
Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0842028463
ISBN 13 
9780842028462
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
291
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780842028455: Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0842028455 ISBN 13 :  9780842028455
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
Couverture rigide