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Bahia, Brazil
[No. 1] Salvador, Bahia: interesting facts concerning the capital of the state of Bahia, Brazil; its origin, progress and resources. -- [no. 2] Geology, topography, climate; the physical phenomena of the state of Bahia and their influence upon the people. -- [no. 3] The cacao industry of Bahia; prepared from data furnished by Dr. Gregorio Bondar. -- [no. 4] Rural aspects of Bahia: an exposition of the simple life of the rural population of Bahia together with data and photographs of some of the products and industries which offer opportunity for capital and development.
Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region's transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for indep...
Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-era Brazil
Focusing on the military institutions (army, militia, and National Guard) of Bahia, Brazil, this book analyzes the region’s transition from Portuguese colony to province of the Brazilian Empire. It examines the social, racial, and cultural dimensions of post-independence state-building in one of the principal slave plantation regions of the Americas. Contrary to those who stress the autonomy of the Brazilian state, this book documents the close connections between the locally-organized armed forces and society in the late colonial period. Racially segregated and mirroring the class hierarchies of the larger society, these military institutions were profoundly transformed by the war for ind...
Brazil's Living Museum
Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia has built its economy around attracting international tourists to what is billed as the locus of Afro-Brazilian culture and the epicenter of Brazilian racial harmony. Yet this inclusive ideal has a complicated past. Ch
Bahia's Independence
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled from Salvador in 1823, the culmination of a year-long war that gave independence a radical meaning in Bahia. Bahia's Independence traces the history of the Dois de Julho festival in Salvador, the Brazilian state's capital, from 1824 to 1900. Hendrik Kraay discusses how the festival draws on elements of saints' processions, carnivals, and civic ritual in the use of such distinctive features as the indigenist symbols of independence called th...
Brazil, Stray Notes From Bahia
Excerpt from Brazil, Stray Notes From Bahia: Being Extracts From Letters, &C., During a Residence of Fifteen Years The late james wetherell was, from an early age, fond of all subjects in which the wonderful works of Nature were depicted. Possessing talents of no ordinary kind, but concealed by innate modesty and a retiring dis position, few things escaped his critical notice no ower that grew, or insect that crawled, were objects of indiffer ence to him - no habit or custom peculiar to the country in which he happened to live escaped his eve, which was always in search of something by which to add to his little stock of experimental knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes h...
