The only enduring monarchy in the Americas, a tropical empire ruled by the Braganzas from Rio de Janeiro that held the whole Portuguese inheritance together as its Spanish-speaking neighbours splintered into republics.
Overthrown by a bloodless military coup on 15 November 1889 that deposed Pedro II and proclaimed the republic; the imperial family sailed into European exile.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Empire of Brazil — the shape you scrub through changes in 1823 · 1829.
A standard one-volume history of Brazil covering the Braganza empire from 1822 to 1889.
Brazil's monarchical exceptionalism set against its republican neighbours (broad context).
Rio under the Empire, narrated by literature’s most unreliable husband.