Bahia's Independence: Popular Politics and Patriotic Festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900 9780773557970

Table of contents :
Cover
BAHIA’S INDEPENDENCE
Title
Copyright
CONTENTS
Map, Tables, and Figures
Acknowledgments
Author’s Note on the Text
INTRODUCTION “This Glorious Day for All of Brazil”
CHAPTER ONE “Never Again Will Despotism Govern Our Actions”: The Invention of a Civic Ritual, 1824–47
CHAPTER TWO The Volcano’s “Most Magnificent and Sublime Spectacle”: From Political to Popular Festival, 1848–64
CHAPTER THREE “Subdivided into a Thousand Festivals”: Late-Imperial Dois de Julho, 1865–89
CHAPTER FOUR “On 2 July Nobody Fights”: The Multiple Meanings of a Festival
CHAPTER FIVE Dramas “Appropriate for the Public Theatre”: Dois de Julho on Stage
CHAPTER SIX “Cold as the Stone of Which It Must Be Made”: The Monument and Dois de Julho’s Bifurcation
CONCLUSION The “Greatest Symbol of the Bahian Povo’s Struggle”
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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