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The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil
The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-century Brazil from the vantage point of the provincial capital of Porto Alegre. In the immediate postcolonial period, new ideas about citizenship and freedom were developing, and elites struggled for control of the state as the lower classes sought inclusion in political life. In a shift from the Liberal Party to Positivist or Conservative rule during the bloody Federalist Revolt of 1893-1895, new leaders sought to bring about a more balanced structure of government where the capitalist was sympathetic to the worker, and the worker more passive toward the elite. This represented a compl...
Tropical Travels
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultural production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new ideas about, and representations of, "racial" identity in Brazil. Tropical Travels fruitfully examines how perceptions of "race" were negotiated within popular performance in Rio de Janeiro and how these issues engaged with wider transnational tren...
Clio-Psyché hoje
A coletânea de textos que o leitor tem em mãos possui sua gênese nos trabalhos apresentados no II Encontro Clio-Psyché — Fazeres e dizeres Psi na história do Brasil—, realizado na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) em novembro de 1999. [trecho retirado da apresentação do livro]
Shadows of the Slave Past
This book is a transnational and comparative study examining the processes that led to the memorialization of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in the second half of the twentieth century. Araujo explores numerous kinds of initiatives such as monuments, memorials, and museums as well as heritage sites. By connecting different projects developed in various countries and urban centers in Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the last two decades, the author retraces the various stages of the Atlantic slave trade and slavery including the enslavement in Africa, the process of confinement in slave depots, the Middle Passage, the arrival in the Americas, the daily life of forced labor, until...
Santo Expedito da última hora
Santo das causas urgentes e impossíveis, Santo Expedito está presente na devoção popular em diversos países. Em seu dia, 19 de abril, devotos de todo o mundo compartilham recados e pedem sua intercessão junto a Jesus Cristo. Esse livro retrata os respingos de luz sobre o Santo das causas urgentes". A história de Santo Expedito está envolta em uma série de lendas. Elas devem ser interpretadas para se iluminar o devocional envolto em certo obscurantismo. As lendas não são histórias mentirosas: são detalhes de uma vida acrescida à verdade.
São Paulo Yearbook
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Conan: A Hora do Dragão
A épica adaptação para quadrinhos do romance escrito por Robert E. Howard pelas lendas Roy Thomas, Gil Kane e John Buscema... e totalmente em cores! O maligno Xaltotun chega vindo de um passado sombrio e arranca Conan, o rei da Aquilônia, de seu trono. Porém, enquanto todos o consideram morto, o cimério vence obstáculo após obstáculo em busca de seu único objetivo. vingança sangrenta!
