Surprise Heirs II

Illegitimacy, Inheritance Rights, and Public Power in the Formation of Imperial Brazil, 1822-1889

Linda Lewin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

432 Seiten

2003
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8047-4606-9 (ISBN)

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Focusing on the inheritance rights of people born outside wedlock, this book explores the legal evolution of their rights as Brazil moved from colony to nation. It offers a unique counterpoint to the conventional political history of the Brazilian Empire, which ignores important legal change involving family and inheritance law. The book also provides a new and complementary approach to recent scholarship on the family in nineteenth-century Brazil by using that research as a starting point for examining illegitimacy, marriage, and concubinage from the neglected perspective of legal change.

The author’s exhaustive study of parliamentary debates reveals how the private sphere of the family acquired fundamental significance in the public discourse of Brazil’s imperial legislators. The concluding theme of the book treats the reactionary shift away from liberal reform, the result of the “scandal in the courtroom” that the reform generated.

Linda Lewin is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Politics and Parentela in Paraíba: A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2003
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	717 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-8047-4606-0 / 0804746060
ISBN-13	978-0-8047-4606-9 / 9780804746069
Zustand	Neuware