The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831–1871
ISBN: 9780804768061
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Stanford University Press
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Subjects: National Liberation and Post-Colonialism; Modern History (1700 to 1945);

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).
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