Author: Neill MacaulayPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822306818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
Dom Pedro
Author: Neill MacaulayPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822306818
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
Every Inch a King
Author: Sergio Correa da CostaPublisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125170
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
This is the biography of one of the most colourful and dashing young monarchs who ever lived. His shortcomings—impulsiveness, quick temper, weakness for women—were offset by his truly generous nature. He became a surprising liberal, the only reigning monarch to defy and outwit Metternich, “the evil genius of the reaction,” and he was at one time offered the thrones of Spain and Greece. With a mad grandmother, a mother whose lovers and political intrigues were a court scandal, and a father who had little time to spare for his upbringing, Dom Pedro grew up in a dislocated family who had fled to the Portuguese colony of Brazil just before Napoleon’s armies overran the mother country. Formally uneducated, but brilliantly informed and acute, he separated the colony from Portugal and moulded it into a new nation, only to run counter to the still rising revolutionary tide and to abdicate his throne. Later he was to lead liberal-republican armies into Portugal itself and to secure the throne for his daughter, Maria da Gloria. This exciting story is told as only an artist in words could tell it, with an accuracy of detail and a wealth of colour and emotion that give the book a unique place among recent biographies. Throughout its pages, Brazilian history is related against a larger background in which England, Austria, Greece, Russia, the United States and Spain played important roles. Samuel Putnam, noted for his brilliant English version of Don Quixote, has translated the book into English.
Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil
Author: Mary Wilhelmine WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First published in 1967
Dom Pedro's Expedition, Or, Neutrality in Disguise
Author: The Emperor's Beard
Author: Lilia Moritz SchwarczPublisher: Hill & Wang
ISBN: 9780809042197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Traces the origins and history of the Brazilian monarchy, the contrast between the empire in Brazil and the trend of establishing republics throughout the New World, and the impact of the reign of Dom Pedro II on the evolution of modern Brazil.
Citizen Emperor
Author: Roderick J. BarmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804744003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II's diaries and family papers.
Dom Pedro the Magnanimous, Second Emperor of Brazil
Author: Mary Wilhelmine WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136227415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
First published in 1967
Growing Up Pedro: Candlewick Biographies
Author: Matt TavaresPublisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763693103
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 49
Book Description
"Before Pedro Martainez pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship, before he was named to the All-Star team eight times, before he won the Cy Young Award three times, he was a kid from a place called Manoguayabo in the Dominican Republic. Pedro loved baseball more than anything, and his older brother Ramaon was the best pitcher he'd ever seen. He dreamed of the day he and his brother could play together in the major leagues. This is the story of how that dream came true"--Dust jacket flap.
Afro-Latino Voices: Shorter Edition
Author: Kathryn Joy McKnightPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1624664024
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Ideally suited for use in broad, swift-moving surveys of Latin American and Caribbean history, this abridgment of McKnight and Garofalo's Afro-Latino Voices: Narratives from the Early Modern Ibero-Atlantic World, 1550-1812 (2009) includes all of the English translations, introductions, and annotation created for that volume.
Every Inch a King
Author: Sérgio Corrêa da CostaPublisher: Robert Hale
ISBN:
Category : Brazil
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description