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The Brazil reader : history, culture, politics

Author: Robert M Levine; John J Crocitti
Publisher: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999.
Series: Latin America readers.
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"Indispensable introduction to Brazil for students and general readers includes short scholarly articles, interviews, documents, photographs, and many autobiographical pieces. Begins with precontact indigenous peoples, but about half deals with Brazil since 1945. Topics include indigenous peoples, slavery, Vargas and labor, political protest, women, race relations, marginal groups, and popular culture. Overarching  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Brazil reader.
Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 1999
(OCoLC)656896120
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.

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