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

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

Hardcover

General LawGeneral World HistorySouth American History

ISBN10: 0804746060
ISBN13: 9780804746069
Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2003
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.29 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.44
Language: English

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.

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