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Book Dom Pedro

Download or read book Dom Pedro written by Neill Macaulay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.

Book Portugal and Brazil in Transitn

Download or read book Portugal and Brazil in Transitn written by Sayers and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spain and Portugal

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  • Author : Julia Ortiz Griffin
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 0816074763
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Spain and Portugal written by Julia Ortiz Griffin and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serves as a reference guide for any student interested in the modern history of Spain and Portugal. This work contains a concise narrative history, a chronology, and an A-to-Z encyclopedia covering significant people, places, events, and issues in Spanish and Portuguese history.

Book Brazil

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  • Author : Jane Ladle
  • Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
  • Release : 1999
  • ISBN : 9780887291302
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Brazil written by Jane Ladle and published by Langenscheidt Publishing Group. This book was released on 1999 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insight Guides, the world's largest visual travel guide series, in association with Discovery Channel, the world's premier source of nonfiction entertainment, provides more insight than ever. From the most popular resort cities to the most exotic villages, Insight Guides capture the unique character of each culture with an insider's perspective. Inside every Insight Guide you'll find:.Evocative, full-colour photography on every page.Cross-referenced, full-colour maps throughout.A brief introduction including a historical timeline .Lively, essays by local writers on the culture, history, and people.Expert evaluations on the sights really worth seeing.Special features spotlighting particular topics of interest.A comprehensive Travel Tips section with listings of the best restaurants, hotels, and attractions, as well as practical information on getting around and advice for travel with children

Book Portuguese Brazil

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  • Author : James Lang
  • Publisher : Elsevier
  • Release : 2013-09-11
  • ISBN : 1483269922
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Portuguese Brazil written by James Lang and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuguese Brazil

Book Brazil and Africa

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  • Author : Jose Honorio Rodrigues
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520320530
  • Pages : 406 pages

Download or read book Brazil and Africa written by Jose Honorio Rodrigues and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.

Book Brazil

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  • Author : Christopher Forest
  • Publisher : ABDO
  • Release : 2011-08-01
  • ISBN : 1617876208
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Brazil written by Christopher Forest and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore diverse landscapes, travel back in time, and discover unique populations, all without leaving your chair! Start your international tour in Brazil, land of the Amazon River, coffee, Carnaval, and so much more. This colorful, informative book introduces Brazil's history, geography, culture, climate, government, economy, and other significant features. Sidebars, maps, fact pages, a glossary, a timeline, historic images and full-color photos, and well-placed graphs and charts enhance this engaging title. Countries of the World is a series in Essential Library, an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Book The Sugar Trade

Download or read book The Sugar Trade written by Daniel Strum and published by Stanford General Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a thoroughly researched and richly illustrated account of a key element of the early modern Atlantic world: the sugar trade linking Brazil, Portugal, and the Netherlands. The study seeks to illuminate the economic, social, political, and cultural dimensions of this commerce. Indeed, trade supported Brazil's rise as the world's leading producer of sugar and the first great plantation colony. Likewise, the sugar trade boosted the economy of Portugal and contributed to the upsurge of the Dutch market. The increasing availability of sugar transformed the European diet (along with some medical theories); and sweets came to play an important part in a variety of social practices. In the political arena, sugar and sugar-producing areas became strategic targets in global conflicts. Furthermore, as this trade expanded, it figured centrally in the evolution of a wide range of financial techniques, business strategies, and institutions of governance--which merchants exploited in order to make their transactions more efficient. The book provides a clear examination of these increasingly sophisticated practices, and shows how they had much in common with today's business operations.

Book A Brief History of Brazil

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  • Author : Teresa A. Meade
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 0816077886
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book A Brief History of Brazil written by Teresa A. Meade and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition: ..".[a] concise and interesting account of the histor[y] of Brazil..."--American Reference Books Annual

Book The Cambridge History of Latin America

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Latin America written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-12-06 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume looks at the history of colonial Latin America.

Book A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso Brazilian Empire

Download or read book A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso Brazilian Empire written by Luciane Scarato and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the diverse ways in which the Portuguese language expanded in Brazil, despite the multilingual landscape that predominated before and after the arrival of the Europeans and the African diaspora. Challenging the assumption that the prevalence of Portuguese was a natural consequence and foregone conclusion of colonisation, the book argues that the language’s expansion was as much a result of state intervention as of individual agency. The growth of the Portuguese language was a tumultuous process that mirrored the power relations and conflicts between Amerindian, European, African, and mestizo actors who shaped, standardised, and promoted the language within and beyond state institutions. Knowing Portuguese became an identification sign of being Brazilian. However, a significant number of languages disappeared along the way, and the book highlights that virtual language homogeneity does not imply social equality. Portuguese’s variants place speakers on different social levels that justify domination and inequality. This research tells the history of a victorious language and other languages that left their mark on Brazilian Portuguese. A Plurilingual History of the Portuguese Language in the Luso-Brazilian Empire is a useful resource for scholars interested in the history and standardisation of languages, Portuguese and Brazilian history, and the impacts of colonisation.

Book Culture Wars in Brazil

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  • Author : Daryle Williams
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2001-07-12
  • ISBN : 082238096X
  • Pages : 373 pages

Download or read book Culture Wars in Brazil written by Daryle Williams and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-12 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Culture Wars in Brazil Daryle Williams analyzes the contentious politicking over the administration, meaning, and look of Brazilian culture that marked the first regime of president-dictator Getúlio Vargas (1883–1954). Examining a series of interconnected battles waged among bureaucrats, artists, intellectuals, critics, and everyday citizens over the state’s power to regulate and consecrate the field of cultural production, Williams argues that the high-stakes struggles over cultural management fought between the Revolution of 1930 and the fall of the Estado Novo dictatorship centered on the bragging rights to brasilidade—an intangible yet highly coveted sense of Brazilianness. Williams draws on a rich selection of textual, pictorial, and architectural sources in his exploration of the dynamic nature of educational film and radio, historical preservation, museum management, painting, public architecture, and national delegations organized for international expositions during the unsettled era in which modern Brazil’s cultural canon took definitive form. In his close reading of the tensions surrounding official policies of cultural management, Williams both updates the research of the pioneer generation of North American Brazilianists, who examined the politics of state building during the Vargas era, and engages today’s generation of Brazilianists, who locate the construction of national identity of modern Brazil in the Vargas era. By integrating Brazil into a growing body of literature on the cultural dimensions of nations and nationalism, Culture Wars in Brazil will be important reading for students and scholars of Latin American history, state formation, modernist art and architecture, and cultural studies.

Book Claiming Brazil

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  • Author : Gregg Bocketti
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2022-12-06
  • ISBN : 0822988933
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Claiming Brazil written by Gregg Bocketti and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil marked its centennial as an independent country in 1922. Claiming Brazil explores how Brazilians from different walks of life commemorated the event, and how this led to conflicting ideas of national identity. Civic rituals hold enormous significance, and Brazilian citizens, immigrants, and visitors employed them to articulate and perform their sense of what Brazil was, stood for, and could be. Gregg Bocketti argues that these celebrations, rather than uniting the country, highlighted tensions between modernity and tradition, over race and ethnicity, and between nation and region. Further, the rituals contributed to the collapse of the country’s social and political status quo and gave substance to the debates and ideas that characterized Brazilian life in the 1920s and then under the transformative rule of Getúlio Vargas (1930–1945). Now, at the bicentennial of Brazil’s independence, which itself unfolds in a period of political crisis and economic dislocation, and in the aftermath of several large civic events, it is an opportune moment to consider how Brazilians used civic rituals to engage with questions of identity, belonging, and citizenship one hundred years ago.

Book Brazilian Bulletin

Download or read book Brazilian Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manual de fon  tica e fonologia da l  ngua portuguesa

Download or read book Manual de fon tica e fonologia da l ngua portuguesa written by Willis C. Fails and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escrito inteiramente em português, o Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma obra que abrange todos os aspectos fonéticos e fonológicos desse idioma, inclusive as questões de fonética acústica e auditiva, fonotática e traços suprassegmentais, que a maioria dos livros didáticos não aborda. Neste livro, o estudante encontrará uma introdução detalhada e exata, mas acessível, à fonética e à fonologia da língua portuguesa. Inclui capítulos introdutórios que contextualizam essas disciplinas no campo geral da linguística e salientam o papel dos sons e sua representação na comunicação humana. Principais características: ● Escrito por fonetistas qualificados e versados nas questões atuais da ciência fonética. ● Não é preciso já saber linguística, pois o livro expõe todos os termos e conceitos linguísticos necessários. ● Cada capítulo conta com um resumo, uma lista de conceitos e termos, perguntas de revisão e exercícios de pronúncia relevantes destinados à prática dos conselhos e sugestões específicos do capítulo. ● Os capítulos que abordam a produção física dos sons contêm seções de "Dicas Pedagógicas", "Conselhos Práticos" e "Exercícios de Pronúncia" que ligam a teoria aos aspectos práticos da boa pronúncia. ● Uma característica exclusiva deste livro é a exposição da fonética e fonologia das três principais normas cultas da língua portuguesa: a de São Paulo e do Rio de Janeiro para o português brasileiro (PB), e a de Lisboa para o português europeu (PE). ● Numerosas imagens, gráficos e tabelas para ilustrar claramente cada conceito. ● Recursos eletrônicos, disponíveis online nos materiais de eResource, com a pronúncia dos sons, frases e exercícios do livro. O Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa é uma introdução abrangente a esses campos, escrita de modo a ser clara e acessível aos estudantes de português em nível avançado, para ajudá-los a entender como melhorar a própria pronúncia. O livro é excelente também tanto para alunos de pós-graduação, como para professores, linguistas e profissionais de letras. Written entirely in Portuguese, Manual de fonética e fonologia da língua portuguesa presents an accurate yet accessible introduction to Portuguese phonetics and phonology. The book covers all phonetic and phonological aspects of the language, including those often missing from other textbooks, such as acoustic and auditory phonetics, phonotactics, and suprasegmentals. The book maintains a careful balance between the theoretical and practical aspects of the topic and is designed to help learners improve their pronunciation through an understanding of the linguistic principles of phonetics and phonology combined with the application of these principles through exercises and practice. Additional pronunciation resources are available online at www.routledge.com/9780367179915. Written in a clear and accessible manner, the book is ideal for advanced students of Portuguese with no prior knowledge of linguistics.

Book Immigration and Xenophobia

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  • Author : Rosana Barbosa
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0761841474
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Immigration and Xenophobia written by Rosana Barbosa and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immigration and Xenophobia, Rosana Barbosa discusses Portuguese migration to Rio de Janeiro from 1822 to 1850 as a significant aspect of the city's history. During the first half of the nineteenth century, many Portuguese fled the difficult economic and social conditions in Portugal for better economic opportunities in post-independence Brazil, which was experiencing a boom that was fuelled by such commodities as coffee. Its retail commercial sector attracted many immigrants from France, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and most especially from Portugal. The arrival of Portuguese migrants was facilitated by the fact that they were mostly well received by the Brazilian government and elite, who wanted to create a "white" nation, while still continuing to import thousands of Africans every year. Although they were well received by the government, the Portuguese sometimes faced hostility and aggression from the population at large for reasons arising from nationalism and competition for jobs. Despite the presence of this hostility, most Portuguese immigrants in Rio de Janeiro adapted well to their new environment. They married or developed relationships with local people, bought properties in Brazil, and most did not return to Portugal. Book jacket.

Book Religion  Evolution and Heredity

Download or read book Religion Evolution and Heredity written by Marius Turda and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2018-11-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with the relationship between religion, evolution and heredity, by bringing together two of its aspects that are frequently discussed separately: Darwinism and eugenics. It also demonstrates that religion has played a greater role in shaping modern debates on evolution and human improvement than current scholarship has previously acknowledged. Drawing on examples provided by Britain, Italy and Portugal across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the present study provides a fresh discussion of seminal topics such as reproduction, parenthood, the control of population and ideas of human improvement based on eugenics and genetics, which intersected and, at times, dominated the much broader debate between science and religion reignited by the publication of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural selection in the second half of the nineteenth century.