This innovative study considers how approximately seven thousand
male graduates of law came to understand themselves as having a
legitimate claim to authority over nineteenth-century Brazilian
society during their transition from boyhood to manhood.
While pursuing their traditional studies at Brazil's two law
schools, the students devoted much of their energies to theater and
literature in an effort to improve their powers of public speaking
and written persuasion. These newly minted lawyers quickly became
the magistrates, bureaucrats, local and national politicians,
diplomats, and cabinet members who would rule Brazil until the fall
of the monarchy in 1889.
Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the meaning of liberalism for a slave
society, the tension between systems of patriarchy and patronage,
and the link between language and power in a largely illiterate
society. In the interplay between identity and state formation, he
explores the processes of socialization that helped Brazil achieve
a greater measure of political stability than any other Latin
American country.
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