History: Review of New Books, March 22nd, 2000
Barman, Roderick J. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825-91 Stanford: Stanford University Press 576 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-3150-7 Publication Date: October 1999
Dom Pedro II, emperor of Brazil from 1840 to 1889, was a unique individual. He was a dedicated student of science and literature who devoted his life to the welfare and progress of Brazil. He was crowned when only fourteen, and he served longer than any other nineteenth-century Latin American ruler. Roderick J. Barman of the University of British Columbia is a lifelong student of Brazilian history and author of...
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