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Citizen Emperor Pedro II and the making of Brazil (1825-91) Roderick J. Barman Stanford University Press 40 [pounds sterling] 548pp ISBN 0 8047 3510 7

DURING HALF A MILLENNIUM of Brazilian history, celebrated in the year 2000, no ruler had more influence on the shaping of the nation than Brazil's second and last Emperor, Dom Pedro II. He was related by blood to virtually all the ruling houses of Europe and from the moment of his father's abdication in 1831, until his own flight into exile in November 1889, he ruled Brazil with a wisdom, humility and devotion that no Brazilian ...