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Book Slaves  Peasants  and Rebels

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780252065491
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Slaves Peasants and Rebels written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once preoccupied with Brazilian slavery as an economic system, historians shifted their attention to examine the nature of life and community among enslaved people. Stuart B. Schwartz looks at this change while explaining why historians must continue to place their ethnographic approach in the context of enslavement as an oppressive social and economic system. Schwartz demonstrates the complexity of the system by reconsidering work, resistance, kinship, and relations between enslaved persons and peasants. As he shows, enslaved people played a role in shaping not only their lives but Brazil's institutionalized system of slavery by using their own actions and attitudes to place limits on slaveholders. A bold analysis of changing ideas in the field, Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels provides insights on how the shifting power relationship between enslaved people and slaveholders reshaped the contours of Brazilian society.

Book Frontier Goi  s  1822 1889

    Book Details:
  • Author : David McCreery
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-23
  • ISBN : 9780804767743
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Frontier Goi s 1822 1889 written by David McCreery and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of the state, the nation, and the economy on the far western frontier of Brazil during the period of the Brazilian Empire. The author argues that the province of Goiás, although physically in the center of Brazil, was effectively the far edge of the Empire, thanks to poverty and poor communications. Goiás thus provides a useful test case of the limits and effectiveness of nation-building and state-building and of economic integration into national and international economies during these years. The inhabitants of Goiás successfully struggled to develop an interprovincial “export” trade in cattle at the same time as local elites negotiated a durable and largely peaceful political compromise with the central government. Smuggling and tax evasion were key to the development of the economy, yet politics remained “pro-government” and largely unruffled by partisan strife until the last decade of the Empire.

Book Brazil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Bethell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1989-05-26
  • ISBN : 9780521368377
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Brazil written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-05-26 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformation of Brazil from Portuguese colony to independent nation continues through Brazilian independence to the Paraguayan War, the age of reform (1870-1889) and The First Republic (1889-1930).

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 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enth.: Bd. 1-2: Colonial Latin America ; Bd. 3: From Independence to c. 1870 ; Bd. 4-5: c. 1870 to 1930 ; Bd. 6-10: Latin America since 1930 ; Bd. 11: Bibliographical essays.

Book Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth Century Brazil

Download or read book Business Interest Groups in Nineteenth Century Brazil written by Eugene Ridings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups in the development of Brazil during the nineteenth century.

Book Colonial Brazil

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Bethell
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1987-05-07
  • ISBN : 9780521349253
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Colonial Brazil written by Leslie Bethell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Brazil provides a continuous history of the Portuguese Empire in Brazil from the beginnings of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

Book Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels

Download or read book Industrial Forests and Mechanical Marvels written by Teresa Cribelli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nuanced understanding of modernization in nineteenth-century Brazil that demonstrates Brazilian commitment to technological innovation.

Book The Realities of Images

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Michael Greenfield
  • Publisher : American Philosophical Society
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780871699114
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Realities of Images written by Gerald Michael Greenfield and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Feb. 1877, a letter from the county council of Telha, a town of 600 people located in the Serra da Mattos in Brazil reported that people were dying from starvation. The previous year's rainy season had been sparse, and the harvest, poor. Now, this season's rains still had not appeared. This was the Great Drought -- three years of failed rains enshrined in Brazilian memory as the worst drought ever to hit Brazil's northeast. Drought had visited the region throughout its history, with the earliest recorded occurrences dating back to the 16th century. The failure of rains in 1877 was devastating, for it caught the provinces of the north totally unprepared. The specter of periodic droughts producing dislocation and death continues to haunt the region.

Book Institutions and Societies for Teaching  Research and Popularisation

Download or read book Institutions and Societies for Teaching Research and Popularisation written by Andrée Despy-Meyer and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is devoted to scientific institutions from the 17th to the 20thcentury. It consists of three parts: the first deals with teaching andresearch institutions (universities, technical schools, foundations); the second is about scholarly societies (academies, amateur societies, industrialsocieties); the last deals with scientific popularisation initiatives, notably those of newspapers. Several papers concern the role of women in scientific communities

Book Law  Hegemony  and the Politics of Sugarcane Growers Under Get  lio Vargas

Download or read book Law Hegemony and the Politics of Sugarcane Growers Under Get lio Vargas written by González Luis Arnaldo and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nova americana

Download or read book Nova americana written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessions list  Brazil

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  • Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Brazil
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 770 pages

Download or read book Accessions list Brazil written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Brazil and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire in Transition

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alfred Hower
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2018-02-20
  • ISBN : 1947372750
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book Empire in Transition written by Alfred Hower and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area in prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.

Book Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics

Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Business and Economics written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain

Download or read book History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain written by Edward Baines and published by London, H. Fisher, R. Fisher & F. Jackson, [pref.1835]. This book was released on 1835 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexico at the World s Fairs

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  • Author : Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2024-06-12
  • ISBN : 0520378091
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book Mexico at the World s Fairs written by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024-06-12 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. 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 1997.