Formation of Souls

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Examines the birth of the Brazilian Republic in 1889. Given that the majority of the population of Brazil participated very little in the change from an empire to a republic, what allowed the new government to consolidate its power? As a part of the answer to this question, Carvalho analyses a collection of republican symbols, images, allegories, and myths of the period as attempts by various republican political elites to shape the collective social imagination.