As Barbas Do Imperador: D. Pedro II, Um Monarca Nos Tropicos

By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8571648379
• ISBN13: 9788571648371
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Companhia Das Letras
• Length: 623 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Pedro II of Brazil

Pedro II of Brazil was an extremely complicated man with a very interesting family. I thought this was a great book, less on the intimacy of the Family and more on the Politics of the era. I was very dissapointed that there was so little info on the private and complicated family life. The illustrations were good but there is a plethora of unused photos and paintings that were not included. It is very interesting within the realms that it covers