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Hendrik Kraay - Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil - 9780804742481 - V9780804742481
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Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil

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Description for Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil Hardback. Focusing on the military institutions 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 the principal slave region of the Americas. Num Pages: 376 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 3JH; HBG; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 26. Weight in Grams: 676.

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 colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for ... Read more

These developments deeply affected the lives of the men (and women) involved in the armed forces, and a main aim of this book is to examine their participation in the complex and convoluted process of state-building. The liberalism used to justify independence and the creation of an imperial state resonated among ordinary soldiers and officers, as it provided an ideology and language with which to challenge important features of late colonial military organization such as racial segregation and corporal punishment. Racial discrimination, formally eliminated in the 1830s, shaped racial politics in the military, while the construction of a national army undermined the previously close connections of officers and soldiers to the mainstream of Bahian society.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804742481
SKU
V9780804742481
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About Hendrik Kraay
Hendrik Kraay is Associate Professor of History at the University of Calgary. He is the editor of Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790s-1990s.

Reviews for Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
"Kraay has taken on large, complicated, intertwined issues seeking to use the military as a vehicle to study race and the formation of Bahia's provincial society in the decades prior to and after Brazilian independence . . . [T]his is the best study of the colonial Brazilian military and of its incorporation into the new national army."—Frank D. McCann, Luso-Brazilian ... Read more

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