Carlota Joaquina, Queen of Portugal
Author: Marcus Cheke
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
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Carlota Joaquina, Queen of Portugal
Author: Marcus Cheke
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 238
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Side Dishes
Author: Melissa A Fitch
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2009-06-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780813548531
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Moving beyond the "main dishes" of traditional literary works, Side Dishes offers a provocative and delicious new understanding of Latin American women's authorship and activism. The book illuminates a wealth of creative and intellectual work by Latin American women—editors, directors, cartoonists, academics, performance artists, and comedians—and explores them in light of their treatment of women's sexuality. Side Dishes considers feminist pornography and literary representations of masturbation, bisexuality, lesbianism, and sexual fantasies; the treatment of lust in stand-up comedy and science fiction; critical issues in leading feminist journals; and portrayals of sexuality in four contemporary Latin American films. Melissa A. Fitch concludes with a look at the rise of women's and gender studies programs in Latin America.
1808: The Flight of the Emperor
Author: Laurentino Gomes
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013-08-29
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0762796669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Contacts, Collisions and Relationships
Author: Andrés Baeza Ruz
Publisher: Liverpool Latin American Studi
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1786941724
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A study of the relations between Britain and Chile during the Spanish American independence era (1806-1831). It focuses on the dynamic, unpredictable and changing nature of cultural encounters to cast doubt on the assumption that imperialism was their obvious outcome and to understand further nation-building processes.
Dom Pedro
Author: Neill Macaulay
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780822306818
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
Isabel Orleans-Braganca
Author: James McMurtry Longo
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2007-11-28
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0786432012
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a biography of Isabel Orleans-Braganca, daughter of the last emperor of Brazil. At a time when the voices of women went mostly unheard, Orleans-Braganca was a skilled and vocal politician. She was also a determined abolitionist, committed to peacefully ending slavery in the country that first introduced slavery to America. Thrust into the political spotlight after the death of her two brothers and illness of her father, Orleans-Braganca became acting head of state just as revolution was sweeping the country. She soon found herself in a race to save the constitutional government and free the nation's slaves before a coup d'etat ended her time in power.
Americanos
Author: John Charles Chasteen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-01-28
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0199884455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts, key events, and dominant trends, braided together in a single, taut narrative. He vividly depicts the individuals and events of those tumultuous years, capturing the gathering forces for independence, the clashes of troops and decisions of leaders, and the rich, elaborate tapestry of Latin American societies as they embraced nationhood.
The Braganzas
Author: Malyn Newitt
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2019-10-15
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1789141656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For two hundred and seventy years, the House of Braganza provided the kings and queens of Portugal. During a period of momentous change, from 1640 to 1910, this influential family helped to establish Portuguese independence from their powerful Spanish neighbors and saved the monarchy and government from total destruction by the marauding armies of Napoleon. The Braganzas also ruled the vast empire of Brazil from 1822 to 1889, successfully creating a unified nation and preventing the country from splitting into small warring states. In his fascinating reappraisal of the Braganza dynasty, Malyn Newitt traces the rise and fall of one of the world’s most important royal families. He introduces us to a colorful cast of innovators, revolutionaries, villains, heroes, and charlatans, from the absolutist Dom Miguel to the “Soldier King” Dom Pedro I, and recounts in vivid detail the major social, economic, and political events that defined their rule. Featuring an extensive selection of artworks and photographs, Newitt’s book offers a timely look at Britain’s “oldest ally” and the role of monarchy in the early modern European world.
Diplomacy and the Aristocracy as Patrons of Music and Theatre in the Europe of the Ancien Régime
Author: Iskrena Yordanova
Publisher: Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Published: 2019-11-15
Total Pages: 894
ISBN-13: 3990127705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume explores the dense networks created by diplomatic relationships between European courts and aristocratic households in the early modern age, with the emphasis on celebratory events and the circulation of theatrical plots and practitioners promoted by political and diplomatic connections. The offices of plenipotentiary ministers were often outposts providing useful information about cultural life in foreign countries. Sometimes the artistic strategies defined through the exchanges of couriers were destined to leave a legacy in the history of arts, especially of music and theatre. Ministers favored or promoted careers, described or made pieces of repertoire available to new audiences, and even supported practitioners in their difficult travels by planning profitable tours. They stood behind extraordinary artists and protected many stage performers with their authority, while carefully observing and transmitting precious information about the cultural and musical life of the countries where they resided.
