 | The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871 Subjects: Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1822–1889; Pedro 11 Emperor of Brazil 1825–1891; Conservatives -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; This study focuses on the Brazilian Empire's Conservative Party and its success and failure in constructing a representative, constitutional monarchy to defend a slaveholding plantation society. Jeffrey D. Needell is Associate Professor of Modern Latin American History at the University of Florida. He is author of A Tropical Belle Epoque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (1987). |
