Download or read book French Brazilian Geography written by José Borzacchiello da Silva and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-13 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the development of geography as a scientific discipline in Brazil, highlighting how the established partnerships with French geographers have helped shape scientific progress in the country. It connects economic development and politics with the study of geography in Brazil. The author, José Borzacchiello da Silva, includes interviews with renowned French geographers, documenting their insight into the French contribution to geography in Brazil. The research partnerships established have been significant to the foundation and growth of the discipline in the country.
Download or read book Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France written by Regina R. Félix and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil and France have explored each other's geographical and cultural landscapes for more than five hundred years. The Brazilian je ne sais quoi has captivated the French from their first encounter, and the ingenuity à francesa of French artistic and scholarly movements has intrigued Brazilians in kind. Ongoing Brazil-France interactions have resulted in some of the richest cultural exchanges between Europe and Latin America. In Cultural Exchanges between Brazil and France, leading international scholars evaluate these reciprocal transnational explorations, from the earliest French interventions in Brazil in the sixteenth century to the growing mutual influence that the nations have exerted on one another in the twenty-first century. Original interdisciplinary essays examine cross-cultural interactions and collaborations in the social sciences, intellectual history, the press, literature, cinema, plastic arts, architecture, cartography, and sport. The comparative cultural method used in these analyses deepens the collective treatment of crucial junctures in the long history of often harmonious, but also sometimes ambivalent and occasionally contentious, encounters between Brazil and France.
Download or read book History of Brazil written by Andrew Grant (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Physical Geography of Brazil written by André Augusto Rodrigues Salgado and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the Brazilian natural space and environment. It describes the main environmental aspects of Brazil in relation to geology, climate, geomorphology, vegetation, fauna, water resources and environmental issues. The book presents a beautifully illustrated overview of the physical geography of the Amazon Forest, the central Brazilian savannah (Cerrado), the Cocais Forest, the semi-arid area (Caatinga), the Atlantic Forest area, the Pantanal (Brazilian wetlands), the Auraucárias Plateau, the Pampas area (South grasslands) and the Brazilian Coastal Environment (beaches and mangroves).
Download or read book Exploring Brazil with the Five Themes of Geography written by Jane Holiday and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brazil's forests hold many treasures. Many plants in Brazil's forests are used for medicine. Rare animals also live in these forests. Students will learn how human activity, such as the building of the Trans-Amazonian Highway, has affected these wonders of nature.
Download or read book Bridging Fluid Borders written by Fabio Santos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving rich ethnographic descriptions with an innovative theoretical approach, this book explores and unsettles conventional maps and understandings of Europe and the Americas. Through an examination of the recently inaugurated cross-border bridge between France’s overseas department of French Guiana and Brazil’s northern state of Amapá, which effectively acts as a one-way street and serves to perpetuate inequalities in a historically deeply entangled region, it foregrounds the ways in which borderland inhabitants such as indigenous women, illegalised migrants, and local politicians deal with these inequalities and the increasingly closed Amazonian border in everyday life. A study that challenges the coloniality of memory, this volume shows how the borderland along and across the Oyapock River, far from being the hinterland of France and Brazil, in fact illuminates entangled histories and their concomitant inequalities on a large scale. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and border studies with interests in postcolonialism, memory, and inequality.
Download or read book Brazilian Geography written by Rubén C. Lois González and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the history and theoretical contributions of Brazilian geography since the late twentieth century and shows how this sphere of knowledge has been organically integrated with social and territorial issues and with social movements. The relationship between the subjects and objects of research in Brazilian geography has been centred on the understanding and transformation of realities marked by injustice and inequality. Against this backdrop, the geography of the country has developed by integrating, relating to, and forming part of those realities as it headed out into the streets. Brazilian geography continues to hold theoretical debate in high regard as a result of the influence of critical theory. This book thus covers the theoretical approaches in Brazilian geography, its different lines of research, and above all its character as manifested in culture and society.
Download or read book Milton Santos A Pioneer in Critical Geography from the Global South written by Lucas Melgaço and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, Milton Santos (1926-2001) has been considered one of the most influential thinkers in Brazilian and Latin American social sciences and geography. Yet his writings, most of which have not been translated into English, are largely unknown to European and North American audiences. This book introduces English-speaking scholars to Professor Santos through critical engagement with his ideas and writings. The chapters presented here reveal the breadth and originality of his critical thought, as well as its ongoing importance to contemporary debates. The book features a biography of Santos and includes an annotated translation of one of his most-cited texts, The Return of the Territory, offered here for the first time in English. This text demonstrates how Santos’s provocative insights continue to transform core concepts of political and human geography. The book also includes a number of short chapters written by scholars from Brazil, Spain and France. Through reflections on Santos’s work, the various authors demonstrate the value and possibilities of extending the geographer’s theories. They explore key geographical themes across political economy, rural studies, territorial planning, environmental crisis, digital networks, indigenous peoples, transportation and public health. This collection invites geographers from around the world to engage with this rich intellectual tradition from Brazil.
Download or read book A Parisian in Brazil written by Adèle Samson Toussaint and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brazil written by Zilah Deckker and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the frenzied passion of Carnival to the immensity of the dark Amazon, Brazil is a country of mythic proportions. Encompassing half the continent, South America's giant has stretches of unexplored rain forest, islands with pristine tropical beaches and endless rivers Each book in the ongoing "Countries of the World" series depicts a major nation and its unique position in the world. The main chapters focus on geography, people and culture, history, government and economy, and nature: at a glance double spreads to present a maximum amount of information in a minimal amount of space, utilizing charts, tables, time lines, and other highly visual elements. Full-page maps highlight physical features, vegetation and ecosystems, history, population, and political organization. As a bonus, most photographs within each chapter are tied to a location on the main map for that chapter. Smaller maps zoom in on special topics, such as migration, rainfall, changing borders, resources, industry, and other important themes. The title features Sidebars that introduce intriguing people, places, and events. It contains a glossary to aid in comprehension of unfamiliar terms. It also features an extensive bibliography that lists books, National Geographic articles, and Web sites. It provides tips for report writers.
Download or read book Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil Embracing Historical and Geographical Notices of the Empire and Its Several Provinces by Daniel P Kidder written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil Embracing Historical and Geographical Notices of the Empire and its Several Provinces written by Daniel P. Kidder and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Download or read book Brazil After a Century of Independence written by Herman Gerlach James and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brazil the River Plate and the Falkland Islands written by William Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil written by Daniel Parish Kidder and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decolonising and Internationalising Geography written by Bruno Schelhaas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International scholarship is increasingly aware that the ‘geographical tradition’ is a contentious and contested field: while critical reflections on the imperial past of the discipline are still ongoing, new tendencies including de-colonial studies and geographies of internationalism are focusing on the progressive aspects of plural geographical traditions. This volume contains selected papers presented at two Symposia of the Commission on the History of Geography of the International Geographical Union within the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology which took place in Rio de Janeiro in July 2017. The papers address processes of ‘decolonising’ and ‘internationalising’ science in the 19th and 20th century, with a special emphasis on geography. Internationalization, circulation and dissemination of geographical concepts and ideas are in the focus. The volume includes case studies on Latin America, tropical regions as well as Europe and Japan. There is also an emphasis on the history of international congresses and organizations and on the international circulation of knowledge.
Download or read book L Am rique M ridionale The Map That Shaped Brazil in the 18th Century written by Junia Ferreira Furtado and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-09-23 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how the origins of Brazil’s modern borders can be traced to the cartography of the Americas produced by the eighteenth-century French cartographer J.B.B. d’Anville. It argues that this map reflects the geopolitical policies of the Portuguese diplomat D. Luis da Cunha, who was involved in Portugal’s negotiations with the Spanish to formally establish Brazil’s frontiers, and highlights how and why these policies were adopted in the Treaty of Madrid in 1750.
