Reviews for Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821

The average rating for Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-05-16 00:00:00 Garrett Schneider I love the Alan knight chapter comparing the causes, circumstances, and results of the Mexican revolution and the Bolivian revolution--a must read for fans of knights two volume work on the Mexican revolution. The gotkowitz chapter and the dunkerly and Sinclair thomson chapters are also thoughtful works that contribute a lot to Bolivian historiography on the 1952 revolution with thomson doing a really interesting analysis of how the tupac katari uprising has been viewed by historians at different moments in bolivian history. In this chapter he asks why the 1952 revolution, counterintuitively, has not had the same rhetorical appeal for academics and politicians even though one would think that looking back at the goals of 1952 that this date had a lot more in common with early 21st century activism than say 1899 would have.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-20 00:00:00 Elwood Hopkins This is an excellent study of racism in Brazil. Sheriff makes a distinction that other scholars before her time had not made, that is the distinction between the descriptive and prescriptive claims of democracy racial. In this way she asserts that democracia racial is a myth and also a dream.