CIVIC AND POLITICAL RITUAL IN THE MONARCHIC REACTION: RIO DE JANEIRO AND SALVADOR, 1837-41

Abstract This article examines the political dimensions of the Regresso era governments’ investment in monarchical civic ritual from 1837 to the coronation of emperor d. Pedro II in July 1841. Focusing on the cities of Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, it argues that these celebrations should be understood as an extension of partisan politics, which profoundly shaped the celebrations and the newspaper coverage of them.