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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781477305935
035 _a(DE-B1597)588580
035 _a(OCoLC)1286806449
040 _aDE-B1597
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aFlory, Thomas
_eautore
245 1 0 _aJudge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808–1871 :
_bSocial Control and Political Stability in the New State /
_cThomas Flory.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _a1 online resource (284 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aLLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tPart I. Brazilian Liberalism and Justice in the Independence Period, 1808-1831 --
_t1. Introduction: Liberalism in a Time of Transition --
_t2. Reformist Thought and Brazilian Society --
_t3. The Judicial Legacy --
_tPart II Reform, 1827-1837 --
_t4. The Imperial Justice of the Peace --
_t5. Judicial Personnel: The Justice of the Peace --
_t6. The World of the Justice of the Peace --
_t7. Legal Codes and the Jury System --
_tPart III. Reaction and the Counterreform, 1837-1871 --
_t8. Reactionary Thought and Brazilian Society --
_t9. Justice, Police, and Patronage, 1834-1841 --
_t10. The Politics of Justice, 1841-1871 --
_tConclusion --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn nineteenth-century Brazil the power of the courts rivaled that of the central government, bringing to it during its first half century of independence a stability unique in Latin America. Thomas Flory analyzes the Brazilian lower-court system, where the private interests of society and the public interests of the state intersected. Justices of the peace—lay judges elected at the parish level—played a special role in the early years of independence, for the post represented the triumph of Brazilian liberalism’s commitment to localism and decentralization. However, as Flory shows by tracing the social history and performance of parish judges, the institution actually intensified conflict within parishes to the point of destabilizing the local regime and proved to be so independent of national interests that it all but destroyed the state. By the 1840s the powers of the office were passed to state appointees, particularly the district judges. Flory recognizes these professional magistrates as a new elite who served as brokers between the state and the poorly articulated landowner elite, and his account of their rise reveals the mechanisms of state integration. In focusing on the judiciary, Flory has isolated a crucial aspect of Brazil’s early history, one with broad implications for the study of nineteenth-century Latin America as a whole. He combines social, intellectual, and political perspectives—as well as national-level discussion with scrutiny of parish-level implementation—and so makes sense of a complicated, little-studied period. The study clearly shows the progression of Brazilian social thought from a serene liberal faith in the people as a nation to an abiding, very modern distrust of that nation as a threat to the state.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022)
650 0 _aAgricultural laborers-Mexico-History.
650 0 _aAgricultural laborers-United States-History.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/740150
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477305935
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