Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Map, Tables, and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Author’s Note on the Tex xiii
6. “This Glorious Day for All of Brazil” 3
7. “Never Again Will Despotism Govern Our Actions”: The Invention of a Civic Ritual, 1824–47 43
8. The Volcano’s “Most Magnificent and Sublime Spectacle”: From Political to Popular Festival, 1848–64 84
9. “Subdivided into a Thousand Festivals”: Late-Imperial Dois de Julho, 1865–89 127
10. “On 2 July Nobody Fights”: The Multiple Meanings of a Festival 168
11. Dramas “Appropriate for the Pub Theatre”: Dois de Julho on Stage 200
12. “Cold as the Stone of Which It Must Be Made”: The Monument and Dois de Julho’s Bifurcation 243
13. The “Greatest Symbol of the Bahian Povo’s Struggle” 285
14. Notes 297
15. Bibliography 363
16. Index 401