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Minas Gerais, Brazil
Wiley 2012; US$ 5.99Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to Minas Gerais, Brazil—and no more. In this ebook, you'll get the same expert advice that you'll find in all Frommer's guides, from candid reviews and detailed maps to insider tips from our local authors. Plus, we’ve added planning and background information as well as our... more...
Rio de Janeiro and Side Trips, Brazil
Wiley 2012; US$ 6.99Frommer's ShortCuts give you exactly what you need for your trip to Rio de Janeiro & Side Trips, Brazil—and no more. In this ebook, you'll get the same expert advice that you'll find in all Frommer's guides, from candid reviews and detailed maps to insider tips from our local authors. Plus, we’ve added planning and background information... more...
Napoleons Soldaten
Primus Verlag 2011; US$ 15.42Hauptbeschreibung Heerführer gehen in die Geschichte ein. Sie leben als Heroen des Untergangs oder des Sieges in der Erinnerung fort. Doch was ist mit den einfachen Soldaten? Sie verblassen oft zu bloßen Komparsen der Geschichte, anonymisiert in Stärkemeldungen und Verlustlisten. Mehr als 500.000 Soldaten fast aller Länder und Nationen kämpften... more...
North Carolina Miscellany
The University of North Carolina Press 1962; US$ 45.00This collection of diverse pieces--excerpts from novels, essays, poems, historical records, and newspaper and magazine articles--is a warm and interesting summing-up of North Carolina. The tone of the contents varies from the humorous to the grave. They are alternately touching, rollicking, and genuinely inspiring. more...
The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations... more...
The Anthropology of Love and Anger
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 47.95The Anthropology of Love and Anger questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. In their examination of indigenous peoples from across the South American continent, the contributors to this volume have come to realise that western thought does not possess the vocabulary to define even the fundamentals of indigenous thought and... more...
The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985
Oxford University Press 1993; US$ 45.00The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades... more...
Brazil since 1980
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 22.00This book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development - the shift, in effect, from a pre-modern to a modern economy and society - in any language. more...
Rio & the Best of Brazil Alive
Hunter Publishing 2007; US$ 18.99A 420-page travel guide with color photos and maps throughout more...









