Charles Reybaud - Le Brésil - 1856

Charles Reybaud
Brazil
1st edition 1856
Published by Guillaumin et Cie / Paris
244 pag
Nice bounded halfleather
some pages with foxing but in general a very nice copy

The first edition of Charles Reybaud's (1801–1864) political and social overview of Brazil during the first thirty years since its declaration of independence from Portugal in 1822. The French writer and diplomat Reybaud was full of admiration for the developments that had taken place in Brazil since the renunciation of ties with Portugal and the establishment of an independent kingdom. Reybaud's work is deeply concerned with the development of the young country. He traces the roots of the Constitutionalist Revolution that erupted in Portugal in the early 1820s and the implications that this movement had on Brazil. He furthermore analyzes the industrial and agricultural development, including railways, foreign affairs, and immigration. Reybaud was a modern thinker of his time and his critical views of European colonisation permeate the book. He highlights the many negative effects that these policies had on the development of Brazil and its people. He was also a monarchist, calling Brazil, among all other independent states of the Americas, "the only state which has had the good sense to keep the monarchy". Charles Reybaud served as French consul in Bahia