Pedro II of Brazil
Subtitle: son of the Habsburg empress
By: Gloria Kaiser ; translated and with an afterword by Lowell A. Bangerter.
Contributors: Bangerter, Lowell A., 1941-
Series: Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought.
Publisher: Ariadne Press; Ariadne Pr
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Riverside, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Subjects: Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, 1825-1891 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Pedro the Second of Brazil
Description: "In a jungle in southern Brazil, an emperor who would prefer to be a teacher or a librarian watches in horror as a young soldier, who has just been slain, is carried off on the shoulders of a Guarani Indian.

This and other events in a brutal war that lasts for five years are among the important formative experiences in the life of a modern "prince of peace" who successfully resolves the problems of transforming a primitive empire into a modern republic, then abdicates his throne rather than face the prospect of a civil war that would pit Brazilian against Brazilian."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Continues: Dona Leopoldina.  Graz : Verlag Styria, 1994.