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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Hotel Trópico
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil’s behalf. Jerry Dávila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-ce...
Proa al Plata
Desde fines del s. XVIII los gallegos y asturianos se trasladaron en números crecientes al Río de la Plata. Diversas condiciones, a ambos lados del Atlántico, favorecieron este proceso. Al calor de las Reformas Borbónicas y la expansión económica tardo colonial, Buenos Aires se convirtió en el segundo o tercer destino de las corrientes originadas en el noroeste hispánico, luego de La Habana y Montevideo. Estas migraciones tempranas constituyeron el antecedente de las que posteriormente alcanzaron una dimensión masiva, contribuyendo a sentar las bases de las redes y cadenas migratorias de la segunda mitad del ochocientos.
