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Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society
Cambridge University Press 1986; US$ 48.00This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the development of plantation society in Bahia. more...
Brazil
Oxford University Press, USA 1999; US$ 22.99Introduction: Why Read About Brazil?. CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND GROWTH OF COLONIAL BRAZIL: 1500-1750. The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World. The Colonial Economy and Society. Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural. The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture. CHAPTER 2. CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT BRAZIL: 1790-1830.... more...
Brazil
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 73.50Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists,... more...
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 79.00A pioneering account of the links between Portugal and Brazil which survived despite the demise of the Portuguese Atlantic empire. more...
The Expansion of Tolerance
Amsterdam University Press 2007; US$ 20.00Two renowned experts on religious tolerance in early modern Brazil more...
The Throes of Democracy
Zed Books 2008; US$ 25.95In The Throes of Democracy Bryan McCann gives a panoramic view of Brazil's recent development, exploring the relationships between the rise of the political left, the escalation of urban violence, the agribusiness boom and the spread of pentecostal evangelization. more...
Negro - Die Untersuchung einer schwarzen Identität in Brasilien als ethnische Identität
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 36.37Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit einer möglichen schwarzen Identität der afrobrasilianischen Bevölkerung und untersucht, ob man diese als ethnische Identität bezeichnen könnte. Anhand verschiedener Studien wird herausgearbeitet, inwiefern die afrobrasilianische Bevölkerung eine kulturell bedingte kollektive Identität besitzt, die auf einer gemeinsamen... more...
Early Brazil
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 22.00Presents original sources that illustrate the process of conquest, colonization, and settlement in Brazil. more...
General Benjamin Smith
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00This biography is about one of North Carolina's early governors, an advocate for public education in the post-Colonial period. Benjamin Smith (1757-1826) came from a distinguished South Carolina family and acquired enormous wealth in the Cape Fear region as a member of the planter class. Like his elite white peers, Smith was active in public life,... more...
Southeastern Brazil
Hunter Publishing 2010; US$ 8.99The best places to stay and eat in the Leewards are described here, with abundant pictures, often little-known except by celebrities and the wealthiest travelers. Anguilla, Barbuda, Antigua, Nevis, St. Barts, St. Kitts, St. Martin - all are described. With colorful insights into the history of each location, Secret Caribbean transports you into the... more...









