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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. In its aftermath, the new Brazilian state gradually built a national army, breaking the local orientation of the Bahian regulars by the 1840s. The National Guard, locally-oriented and democratic in its 1831 organization, was turned into a state-controlled corporation in the 1840s.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
• Subtitle: Bahia, 1790s-1840s
• Author: Hendrik Kraay
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780804742481
• ISBN: 0804742480
• ID: 04717343
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 676 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. January 2002

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