The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and the Tropical Monarchy of Brazil

by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

How Brazil created a European-style monarchy in the New World--and why its influence has endured In the early nineteenth century, when the rest of Latin America was in a tumult of revolutions that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809042193
• ISBN13: 9780809042197
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Hill & Wang
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Pedro II of Brazil

Pedro II of Brazil was an extremely complicated man with a very interesting family. I thought this was a great book, less on the intimacy of the Family and more on the Politics of the era. I was very dissapointed that there was so little info on the private and complicated family life. The illustrations were good but there is a plethora of unused photos and paintings that were not included. It is very interesting within the realms that it covers