Tropical Versailles

양장본 Hardcover

Schultz, Kirsten 저자(글)

Routledge · 2001년 08월 31일

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In 1807, to escape an invading Napoleonic army, the Portuguese Prince Regent and some 10,000 functionaries set sail for Brazil. Following the transfer of the court, Rio de Janeiro became a "tropical Versailles," a new world seat of European imperial power. In discourse and practice, residents and royal officials in Rio set out to transform a colonial capital into a royal court and to redefine the bases for the political legitimacy of an empire and monarchy centered in America. With the capital of the Portuguese empire in Brazil for the next thirteen years, an extraordinary inversion of political, economic, and cultural hierarchies that had governed colonial relations for centuries came to pass. Schultz's penetrating study provides an engaging look at a unique and riveting historical episode.
This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.
In 1807, to escape an invading Napoleonic army, the Portuguese Prince Regent and 10,000 functionaries set sail for Brazil. Following the transfer of the court to Rio de Janeiro, Portugal became the only European state to relocate its capital abroad.
Kirsten Schultz is a Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at The Cooper Union in New York City.
This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.
Introduction Chapter 1: 'Brighter Glory in the Western Sphere': Eighteenth-Century Empire, Monarchy and the New World Chapter 2: Preeminence and its Price: Rio de Janeiro in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 3: Tragedy and Triumph: the Politics of Royal Exile Chapter 4: 'The New City' of Rio de Janeiro: Reconstructing the Portuguese Court Chapter 5: 'Tropical Versailles': the Politics of Monarchy in the New World Chapter 6: 'Imperio Florescente': Remaking the Empire Chapter 7: Liberties and Legacies: Constitutionalism in Rio de Janeiro Epilogue Appendix References Index

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저자(글) Schultz, Kirsten

목차

• Introduction
  'Brighter Glory in the Western Sphere': Eighteenth-Century Empire, Monarchy and the New World
  Preeminence and its Price: Rio de Janeiro in the Eighteenth Century
  Tragedy and Triumph: the Politics of Royal Exile
  'The New City' of Rio de Janeiro: Reconstructing the Portuguese Court
  'Tropical Versailles': the Politics of Monarchy in the New World
  'Imperio Florescente': Remaking the Empire
  Liberties and Legacies: Constitutionalism in Rio de Janeiro Epilogue
  Appendix
  References
  Index
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ISBN	9780415929875 ( 0415929873 )
발행(출시)일자	2001년 08월 31일
쪽수	338쪽
크기	161 * 229 * 27 mm / 612 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어