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Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for independence in the early 1820s. These developments deeply affected the lives of the men (and women) involved in the armed forces, and a main aim of this book is to examine their participation in the complex and convoluted process of state-building.

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• Full title: Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
• Subtitle: Bahia, 1790s-1840s
• Author: Hendrik Kraay
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780804751018
• ISBN: 0804751013
• ID: 04717876
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 159 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. August 2004

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