...This chapter examines the relationship between the statesmen and their place and people and describes the port and province of Rio de Janeiro in order to provide a better understanding of the political history of the Brazilian monarchy and the Party of Order. It provides topographical descriptions...

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...This book tells the story of the origins and shared history of representative and democratic institutions in central Europe—a history that has been largely erased by the nation-state-centered histories which have dominated European historiography after 1918. This is a political history...

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