How Long to Read Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil

How Long Does it Take to Read Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 25 minutes to read Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil by Hendrik Kraay

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region’s transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for independence in the early 1820s. In its aftermath, the new Brazilian state gradually built a national army, breaking the local orientation of the Bahian regulars by the 1840s. The National Guard, locally-oriented and democratic in its 1831 organization, was turned into a state-controlled corporation in the 1840s. These developments deeply affected the lives of the men (and women) involved in the armed forces, and a main aim of this book is to examine their participation in the complex and convoluted process of state-building. The liberalism used to justify independence and the creation of an imperial state resonated among ordinary soldiers and officers, as it provided an ideology and language with which to challenge important features of late colonial military organization such as racial segregation and corporal punishment. Racial discrimination, formally eliminated in the 1830s, shaped racial politics in the military, while the construction of a national army undermined the previously close connections of officers and soldiers to the mainstream of Bahian society.

How long is Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil?

Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil by Hendrik Kraay is 382 pages long, and a total of 96,264 words.

This makes it 129% the length of the average book. It also has 118% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 46 minutes to read Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil aloud.

What Reading Level is Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil?

Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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