Days of national festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823-1889 / Hendrik Kraay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraay, Hendrik, 1964- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Festivals--Political aspects--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--19th century.

Festivals.

Political customs and rites--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History--19th century.

Political customs and rites.

Holidays.

History.

Festivals--Political aspects.

Brazil--Anniversaries, etc--Political aspects--History--19th century.

Brazil.

Holidays--Brazil--History--19th century.

Brazil--Politics and government--1822-1889.

Politics and government.

Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.

Physical Description:

xii, 562 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]

Summary:

This book studies the civic rituals of the Brazilian empire (1823-89), examining the celebrations on officially designated days of national festivity in Rio de Janeiro, the receptions staged to welcome emperors back from journeys, and the inaugurations of the monuments that commemorated the first emperor and his chief minister at the time of independence. The author explores the patterns and forms of commemoration, the debate about the meaning of the principal institutions of the constitutional monarchy celebrated on the main days of national festivity, and the challenges to imperial civic ritual promoted by radical liberals and by republicans. He also analyzes popular engagement with imperial civic ritual and argues that the urban population was frequently a keen if not always welcome participant in these celebrations. Based primarily on newspaper accounts and observations by foreigners, this book is the first systematic analysis of civic ritual in a Latin American country over such a long period of time. It brings the urban popular classes fully into imperial politics; it connects imperial Brazilian civic culture to its European and colonial predecessors; and it shows how, after independence, civic ritual became the occasion for often intense political struggles and debate. Book jacket.

Contents:

Constructing the monarchy, 1823-1829

The radical challenge, 1830-1837

Monarchical reaction, 1837-1841

Official festivities and politics, 1841-1864

The equestrian statue of Pedro I, 1862

Patriots on the streets and at home, 1840s-1860s

The empire on stage, 1820s-1864

War, patriotism, and politics, 1865-1870

Questioning official ritual, 1870s-1880s

Popular patriots and abolitionists, 1870s-1880s

Epilogue : republican innovations in the 1890s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-537) and index.

ISBN:

9780804785266

0804785260

OCLC:

818953184