Download or read book Citizen Emperor written by Roderick J. Barman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II's diaries and family papers.