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This book examines how the early modern Portuguese state used convicts and orphans to populate its global empire. In addition, it addresses the issue of gender in the state's use of two distinct groups of single women as colonizers, orphan girls and reformed prostitutes, each given state-awarded dowries if they agreed to relocate overseas.
Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945. "The Development of Brazilian Studies in the United States," provides an overview of Brazilian Studies in North American universities. "Perspectives from the Disciplines" surveys the various academic disciplines that cultivate Brazilian studies: Portuguese language studies, Brazilian literature, art, music, history, anthropology, Amazonian ethnology, economics, politics, and sociology. "Counterpoints: Brazilian Studies in Britain and France" places the contributions of U.S. scholars in an international perspective. "Bibliographic and Reference Sources" offers a chronology of key publications, an essay on the impact of the digital age on Brazilian sources, and a selective bibliography.
This bibliography lists those contributions to the study of Gil Vicente that were published between 1975 and 1995. It also supplements the 1940-75 Gil Vicente bibliography. Entries are organized into three main sections: editions and adaptations, translations, and critical studies.
This book is a cultural history of European languages from the invention of printing to the French Revolution.
Analysis of the consolidation of British imperialist discourse about India from the seventeenth century to the 1830s.
Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.
50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.
Drawing on a wide range of Dutch, English, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish sources, Empires of Love shows how the encounter with Asia shaped the way early modern Europeans came to define their racial and sexual identities.