Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The Portuguese Empire in the Age of Revolution: Pernambuco, 1817; 2. Independence, Regional Rebellion, and the Struggle over the State, 1820-1831; 3. Liberal Reforms and the Resort to Arms, 1831-1835; 4. Social Control and the Construction of a Centralized State: The Regresso; 5. Political Organization: Pernambuco's Southern Elite and its Rivals, 1836-1843; 6. The Centralized State and Political Polarization, 1844-1847; 7. Political Parties, Popular Mobilization, and the Portuguese; 8. The Praieira Revolution, 1848-1850; Conclusion

Promotional Information

Shows the interplay between local and provincial social and political struggles and the construction of the nation state in Brazil

About the Author

Jeffrey C. Mosher is an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University.

Reviews

"The study successfully contributes to the growing understanding of Brazil's imperial political structure."—J. M. Rosenthal, CHOICE

"Political Struggle is a welcome addition to our understanding of the first decades of the Brazilian Empire and it should have a broad appeal to scholars and students alike."—Peter M. Beattie, The Americas

"Jeffrey Mosher has succeeded in producing an important book that will become a touchstone for historiographical debates for years to come."—Gabriel Paquette, Hispanic American Historical Review

"Mosher's study broadens a rich and varied Pernambucan historiography and his inclusion of heretofore unavailable archival materials brings new insights into local/state relationships."—Nancy Priscilla Naro, Bulletin of Latin American Research

"Mosher provides what is surely the most meticulous political history of the province in this period available in any language, and certainly the only one in English."—Richard Graham, American Historical Review

"Mosher has produced an important study that bridges several historiographical traditions and is the first solid study in English of this very important period in Pernambucan and Brazilian history. It will remain an important work and a starting point for many new strands of research into the contested years of early state formation in Brazil."—James E. Wadsworth, Ethnohistory