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A Poverty of Rights
A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.
Entendendo os indígenas no Império do Brasil
"Este livro é uma compilação de reflexões sobre as políticas indigenistas no período imperial e todas as questões territoriais que atravessaram a História, abordando a construção do pensamento indigenista na formação do Império brasileiro e fornecendo análises de como os povos indígenas "lutaram para manter seus patrimônios, suas vidas e integridade", apesar de toda exploração, escravidão e tentativas de apagamento de suas identidades. ""Entendendo os indígenas no Império do Brasil"" se debruça sobre algumas passagens históricas, dentre elas o fomento econômico do sul baiano no século XIX, com foco na missionação e colonização da Colônia Cachoeira (BA), além de...
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Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
From reviews of Volume I: "Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for." —Luso-Brazilian Review Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century and its most controversial politician. He might have become president in the 1960s had not the military taken over. In the first volume, John F. W. Dulles paints a portrait of a rebellious youth, who had the willfulness of his prominent father and who crusaded for Communism before becoming its most outspoken foe. Recalling Lacerda's rallying cry, "Brazil must be shaken up," Dulles traces the care...
Liberals, Politics, and Power
Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of original essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. Liberals, Politics, and Power focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latin Americans who applied liberal ideology to the founding and maintenance of new states. The impact of liberalism in Latin America, the contributors show, is best understood against the larger backdrop of struggles that pitted regional demands against the pressures of foreign finance, a powerful church against a decentralized state, and aristocratic desire to retain privilege again...
