Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City by Thomas H. Holloway

Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City

Thomas H. Holloway

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When in 1808 members of the Portuguese royal entourage arrived in Rio de Janeiro, the capital of a colony most had previously known only through administrative reports and balance sheets, they encountered a hostile and dangerous population that in...

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