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Bahia's independence : popular politics and patriotic festival in Salvador, Brazil, 1824-1900 /

"Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled from Salvador in 1823, the culmin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kraay, Hendrik, 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction: "This glorious day for all of Brazil"
  • "Never again will despotism govern our actions": the invention of a civic ritual, 1824-47
  • The volcano's "most magnificent and sublime spectacle": from political to popular festival, 1848-64
  • "Subdivided into a thousand festivals": late-Imperial Dois de Julho, 1865-89
  • "On 2 July nobody fights": the multiple meanings of a festival
  • Dramas "appropriate for the public theatre": Dois de Julho on stage
  • "Cold as the stone of which it must be made": the monument and Dois de Julho's bifurcation
  • The "greatest symbol of the Bahian Povo's struggle."