MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 94833094
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050 00 $aF2534$b.L97 1994
100 1 $aLyra, Maria de Lourdes Viana.
245 12 $aA utopia do poderoso império :$bPortugal e Brasil : bastidores da política, 1798-1822 /$cMaria de Lourdes Viana Lyra.
260 $aRio de Janeiro :$bSette Letras,$cc1994.
300 $a256 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-256).
520 1 $a"Examines why Portuguese Brazil became a unified empire (and not a kingdom) following independence, whereas Spanish America broke apart into republican states. Argues that by 1820, when the Portuguese had abandoned the Enlightenment vision of a powerful Portuguese empire in which Brazil would play an important role, Brazilians shifted the discourse from emancipation within the empire to independence and the creation of a 'powerful empire' of their own"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.$uhttp://www.loc.gov/hlas/
651 0 $aBrazil$xPolitics and government$y1763-1822.
650 0 $aMonarchy$zBrazil$xHistory.
651 0 $aBrazil$xRelations$zPortugal.
651 0 $aPortugal$xRelations$zBrazil.