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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s

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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s - Kraay, Hendrik
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Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late ...

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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s 2004, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804751018

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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil: Bahia, 1790s-1840s 2002, Stanford University Press, Palo Alto

ISBN-13: 9780804742481

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