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This work is focused on the abolitionist movement in Rio de Janeiro. It offers a careful reconstruction of the movement's context and evolution in Rio, and the related formal parliamentary history. An understanding of the nature of the political parties of the Brazilian monarchy, the role of the crown, and the significance of ideology and individual statesmen has been brought to bear in order to comprehend how the regime actually interacted with abolitionism and how both the movement and the regime shaped each other as a consequence.

Antislavery movements --- Black people --- Slavery --- History --- Politics and government --- Brazil --- Abolitionist movement. --- Afro-Brazilian. --- Rio de Janeiro. --- elite. --- masses. --- mobilization. --- monarchy. --- parliament. --- racial identity. --- slavery. --- Black persons --- Blacks --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Abolitionism --- Anti-slavery movements --- Human rights movements

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For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world's largest economies for the last twenty years. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country's media, its nuclear capabilities, changing crime rates, the spread of Pentecostalism and indigenous religions, the development of popular culture, the growth of Brazilian agribusiness, and

Globalization --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Brazil --- History. --- Foreign relations --- Economic conditions. --- History --- Economic conditions --- Globalization - Brazil --- Brazil - History --- Brazil - Foreign relations - 20th century --- Brazil - Economic conditions