Surprise heirs / Linda Lewin.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Subjects: Illegitimacy -- Brazil -- History -- 19th century; Brazil -- Social conditions -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Illegitimacy, patrimonial rights, and legal nationalism in Luso-Brazilian inheritance, 1750-1821; title: v. 2. Illegitimacy, inheritance rights, and public power in the formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889.