A Mestizo and Tropical Country: The Creation of the Official Image of Independent Brazil

The objective of this article is to consider how  Brazil, in the first official images of it as a nation,  was characterized by symbols that reflected its  singularity and universality: a tropical monarchy  with representations of indigenous peoples, flora  and fauna mixed with the traditional eleme...

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Main Author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: CEDLA 2006-04-01
Series:European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Online Access:http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9653/