Princess Isabel of Brazil - Roderick J. Barman

Princess Isabel of Brazil

Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century
Buch | Hardcover
291 Seiten
2002
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-8420-2845-5 (ISBN)
137,15 inkl. MwSt
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.
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 father's 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 Isabel's 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, women's studies, and Latin American history courses.

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.

Chapter 1 List of Maps and Figures Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Gender and Power in Brazil Chapter 4 Daughter, 1846-64 Chapter 5 Bride, 1864-65 Chapter 6 Wife, 1865-72 Chapter 7 Mother, 1872-81 Chapter 8 Empress-in-Waiting, 1881-89 Chapter 9 Her Own Woman, 1889-1921 Chapter 10 Reflections Chapter 11 Annotated Bibliography Chapter 12 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.5.2002
Reihe/Serie Latin American Silhouettes
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 234 mm
Gewicht 603 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-8420-2845-5 / 0842028455
ISBN-13 978-0-8420-2845-5 / 9780842028455
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