The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

by Jeffrey D. Needell

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804753695
• ISBN13: 9780804753692
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"