Foreign policy of the first republic

This book by Clodoaldo Bueno, one of Brazil's leading contemporary historians, offers a highly original analysis of the heyday of the First Republic's foreign policy. Focusing on the transition from Pax Britannica to the beginning of US hegemony, he deeply investigates its effects on new continental relations, particularly in Rio Branco's republican Brazil. The greatest challenge of this work is a thorough reconstruction of the Baron-Chancellor's system of ideas and references.