The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and the Tropical Monarchy of Brazil by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and the Tropical Monarchy of Brazil

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

464 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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How Brazil created a European-style monarchy in the New World--and why its influence has endured In the early nineteenth century, when the rest of Latin America was in a tumult of revolutions that established republics throughout the continent. Br...

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