Details

Subjects:

National characteristics, Brazilian -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, Brazilian -- History -- 20th century.
National characteristics, Latin American -- History -- 19th century.
National characteristics, Latin American -- History -- 20th century.
Brazil -- Relations -- Latin America.
Latin America -- Relations -- Brazil.
Brazil -- Civilization.
Brazil -- History -- 1889-1930.
Latin America -- Foreign public opinion, Brazilian.
Public opinion -- Brazil -- History.
Civilization.
National characteristics, Brazilian.
National characteristics, Latin American.
Public opinion.
Public opinion, Brazilian.
Relations.
Brazil.
Latin America.

Form/Genre:

History.

Summary:

Explores the interplay between Brazilian interpretations of the national Self and the Spanish-American Other during the critical years spanning the demise of slavery and monarchy.

Contents:

The island of Brazil and Spanish America : first bridges, 1865-1888
The end of slavery and the hopeful beginnings of a Latin American consciousness in Brazil
The end of the monarchy and the unwelcome Hispano-Americanization of Brazil
Close encounters of the peripheral kind : Luso-Hispano-American interaction in the Age of Empire and the ideologization of "Latin America"
Recreating the island, maintaining the bridges: Rio Branco, Spanish America, and the myth of paz e concórdia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-233) and index.

ISBN:

9788484894810 (Iberamericana Ed. Vervuert pbk. : alk. paper)
8484894819 (Iberamericana Ed. Vervuert pbk. : alk. paper)
9781936353026 (Iberoamericana Vervuert Pub. pbk. : alk. paper)
1936353024 (Iberoamericana Vervuert Pub. pbk. : alk. paper)
1558764682
9781558764682

OCLC:

698029405