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Trade, Plunder and Settlement
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

Trade, Plunder and Settlement

Traces the maritime expansion of England through descriptions of a multitude of sea voyages from 1480 through 1630. Analyzes exploration, trading enterprise ventures and piracy and reveals how the attempts to create British settlements overseas resulted in the founding of the first New World colonies.

Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 138

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Frozen Echo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

The Frozen Echo

Using new archaeological, scientific, and documentary information this book confronts head-on many of the unanswered questions about early exploration and colonization along the shores of the Davis Strait.

Commercial Directory of Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 454

Commercial Directory of Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1892
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 594

Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1891
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 508

Bulletins of the Bureau of the American Republics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1893
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Algarve Building
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Algarve Building

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-06-03
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Foreword by Adrian Forty. The Algarve is not only Portugal’s foremost tourism region. Uniquely Mediterranean in an Atlantic country, its building customs have long been markers of historical and cultural specificity, attracting both picturesque driven conservatives and modernists seeking their lineage. Modernism, regionalism and the ‘vernacular’ – three essential tropes of twentieth-century architecture culture – converged in the region’s building identity construct and, often the subject of strictly metropolitan elaborations, they are examined here from a peripheral standpoint instead. Drawing on work that won the Royal Institute of British Architects President’s Award for Out...

Agents of Orthodoxy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 289

Agents of Orthodoxy

The Portuguese Inquisition is often portrayed as a tyrannical institution that imposed itself on an unsuspecting and impotent society. The men who ran it are depicted as unprincipled bandits and ruthless spies who gleefully dragged their neighbors away to rot in dark, pestilential prisons. In this new study, based on extensive archival research, James E. Wadsworth challenges these myths by focusing on the lay and clerical officials who staffed the Inquisition in colonial Pernambuco, one of Brazil's oldest, wealthiest, and most populated colonies. He argues that the Inquisition was an integral part of colonial society and that it reflected and reinforced deeply held social and religious value...