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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| Language: | English |
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CEDLA
2006-04-01
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| Series: | European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies |
| Online Access: | http://www.erlacs.org/articles/10.18352/erlacs.9653/ |