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Provincial Origins of the Brazilian State: Rio de Janeiro, the Monarchy, and National Political Organization, 1808–1853
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2022
Abstract
This study addresses the provincial origins and role of the reactionary party that legislated the reconstruction of the Brazilian monarchy, perhaps Latin America's most stable nineteenth-century political regime. The study locates the party in terms of regional power, taking into account social, economic, and political factors. It analyzes the party's ideology in the historical context of the Regency (1831–1840) and its immediate aftermath, an era of destabilization, social war, and secessionism. The study also demonstrates how the party mobilized partisan support nationally to consolidate party and state power, the unexpected impact of patronage, and the increasingly autonomous quality of state power over time.
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This research note is a revised version of a paper presented to the Conference for Latin American History in Chicago, 5–9 January 2000. It benefited from earlier comments and criticism by Judy Bieber and Jeffrey Mosher and from Timothy Anna's remarks at the panel presentation. Three anonymous LARR readers' reports have strengthened the piece in many ways. The author sincerely thanks all these colleagues. Remaining imperfections are his responsibility alone. The analysis derives from research made possible by awards and fellowships from the Division of Sponsored Research at the University of Florida (1988, 1996–1997), the American Philosophical Society (1988, 1996), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1990–1991), and the Social Science Research Council and the National Endowment for the Humanities (1996–1997). Research was also facilitated while acting as a visiting professor of Brazilian studies in 1994 at the Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Latijns Amerika of the Royal University of Leiden in the Netherlands and as a 1997 Fulbright lecturer and researcher at the Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia e Ciência Política of the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil. The author is very grateful to all these institutions. He also notes his debt to Richard Phillips and Peter Stern of the Latin American Collection at the University of Florida.
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