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As Barbas do Imperador

biography of Dom Pedro II

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ18238040 ↗
Source-derived summary

As Barbas do Imperador – D. Pedro II, um monarca nos trópicos (The Emperor's Beard: Dom Pedro II and His Tropical Monarchy in Brazil in English) is a non-fiction biography book written by Brazilian historian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz about the life and reign of Dom Pedro II, from his birth to his death. The book won the Prêmio Jabuti in 1999.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “As Barbas do Imperador” is biography of Dom Pedro II. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Barbas, Imperador and biography, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-11-30. For this dossier, Barbas, Imperador and biography is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q18238040. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “As Barbas do Imperador” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.