The practice of politics in postcolonial Brazil
Subtitle: Porto Alegre, 1845-1895
By: Roger A. Kittleson.
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Pittsburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Political participation -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre -- History -- 19th century; Social movements -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre -- History -- 19th century; Porto Alegre (Brazil) -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Description: "The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-century Brazil from the vantage point of the provincial capital of Porto Alegre. In the immediate postcolonial period, new ideas about citizenship and freedom were developing, and elites struggled for control of the state as the lower classes sought inclusion in political life. The emergent Liberal Party, while initially successful in dismantling Portuguese trade restrictions, later came to be viewed as an elitist group that staved off threats to the systems of slavery, patronage, and the class hierarchy."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Our compatriots are vagrants" : work, morality, and the shaping of a new povo, 1845-1880; title: The immigrant solution and its problems, 1846-1880; title: The politics of everyday life in the city; title: Blurring the lines of public politics : abolitionist projects, 1879-1888; title: "A strange vision of popular movement" : the emergence and limits of a new politics; title: Conclusion.