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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Brazil reader. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999 (OCoLC)656896120 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert M Levine; John J Crocitti |
| ISBN: | 0822322900 9780822322900 0822322587 9780822322580 |
| OCLC Number: | 40073996 |
| Description: | x, 527 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Origins, Conquest, and Colonial Rule -- The Origin of Fire / Cayapo Legend -- Noble Savages / John Hemming -- A Description of the Tupinamba -- The First Wave / Warren Dean -- Letter to Governor Tome de Sousa / Manoel da Nobrega -- From the River of Jenero / Francisco Suares -- The Sins of Maranhao / Antonio Vieira -- Minas Uprising of 1720 -- Smuggling in the Diamond District / George Gardner -- Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom / Joao VI -- Imperial and Republican Brazil -- Declaration of Brazilian Independence, 1822 / Pedro I -- The Baron of Parnaiba / George Gardner -- Uprising in Maranhao, 1839-1840 / Domingos Jose Goncalves de Magalhaes -- A Paraiba Plantation, 1850-1860 / Stanley J. Stein -- The Paraguayan War Victory Parade / Peter M. Beattie -- A Vanishing Way of Life / Gilberto Freyre -- A Mirror of Progress / Dain Borges -- Drought and the Image of the Northeast / Gerald M. Greenfield -- Dom Pedro the Magnanimous / Mary Wilhelmine Williams -- Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900 -- Intellectuals at Play / Olavo Bilac Collection -- City of Mist / Manoel Sousa Pinto -- The Civilist Campaign / J.R. Lobao -- Gaucho Leaders, 1923 -- Factory Rules, 1924 -- Slavery and Its Aftermath -- The War against Palmares -- Slave Life at Morro Velho Mine / Sir Richard Francis Burton -- Scenes from the Slave Trade / Logbook Entries, Joao Dunshee de Abrantes -- Cruelty to Slaves / Thomas Ewbank -- Slavery and Society / Joaquim Nabuco -- Abolition Decree, 1888 / Princess Isabel, Rodrigo Augusto da Silva. |
| Series Title: | Latin America readers. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti. |
Abstract:
An interdisciplinary anthology that includes many primary resources never before published in English.
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"Duke University Press has just brought out . . . the closest thing to a voyage around 'the great green elbow' that one of its novelists called his rich and varied country. The book shimmers with every type of essay, historiography, and literary tidbit." - "Rain City Review" Read more...
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- Brazil -- History.
- Brazil -- Social conditions.
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