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Media Narratives: Productions and Representations of Contemporary Mythologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 225

Media Narratives: Productions and Representations of Contemporary Mythologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-02-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Media narratives are the “reflection” of current beliefs and ideas. The case studies in this volume represent an exceptional field of research on dominant mythologies; examples from several countries reveal that media narratives express a dominant consumer storytelling.

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 718

Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 76

Beginning with Number 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas.

The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 214

The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil

The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil explores the consequences of globalization in emerging-market economies using Brazil as a case study. This well-researched and thought provoking book elaborates a new interpretation of Brazilian society by showing the relationship between political thought and economics, as well as how the two disciplines can interact, working together to shape a nation. Milton Tosto Jr. carefully traces the meaning of liberalism throughout Brazilian history, explaining liberalism's birth and collapse, and ultimately offers reasons why the new liberal institutions of Brazil have an excellent chance of prospering. Anyone interested in economics, political theory, or Latin American studies will find this unique and insightful volume helpful.

Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020

In the 1950s–80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the "developing" countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial product. This volume draws on social, economic, and demographic data to document the accelerated industrialization of the state and its subsequent shift to a service economy amidst worsening social and economic inequality. Through its cultural institutions, universities, banking, and corporate sectors, the municipality of São Paulo would become a world metropolis. At the same time, given its rapid growth from 2 million to 12 million residents in this period, São Paulo dealt with problems of distribution, housing, and governance. This significant volume elucidates these and other trends during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and will be an invaluable reference for scholars of history, policy, and the economy in Latin America.

Soldiers of the Pátria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Soldiers of the Pátria

This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the army’s overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazil’s first civilian dictatorship in 1937. The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazil—a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state. The book is based on detailed research in Brazilian, British, American, and French archives, and on numerous interviews with surviving military and civilian leaders. It also makes extensive use of hitherto unused internal army documents, as well as of private correspondence and diaries. It is thus able to shed new light on the army’s personnel and ethos, on its ties with civilian elites, on the consequences of military professionalization, and on how the army reinvented itself after the collapse of its command structure in the crisis of 1930—a reinvention that allowed the army to become the backbone of the post-1937 dictatorship of Getulio Vargas.

Policing Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 367

Policing Freedom

Explores the transformation of punishment in ninteneeth-century Brazil and its intersection with changes in labor relations in the Atlantic World.

Not Out
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

Not Out

Heroes don't just set records. They change lives. By example. By inspiring others. Not Out: Heroes from the World of Sport is a collection of instances of heroism from a variety of sports ranging from cricket to football to boxing. These are stories based on real people and events that had a profound effect not just on the world of sport, but on our lives. From the first coloured world champion to the men who played bare feet to win a football tournament, this is a tribute to those sportspersons who braved tremendous odds to emerge victorious. Some became legends, some remain relatively unknown. But all of them reflect the spirit of sport in the finest sense.

U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, ... S. Hrg. 112-597, Volume 2 of 2, July 17, 2012, 112-2 Hearing, *
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1426
Diseases of Donkeys and Mules, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Diseases of Donkeys and Mules, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice

This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, guest edited by Dr. Ramiro Toribio in collaboration with Consulting Editor Dr. Thomas Divers, is devoted to Diseases of Donkeys and Mules. Topics include:Endocrine and metabolic disorders of donkeys;Gastrointestinal disorders of donkeys and mules;Clinical pathology of donkeys;Genetics, evolution, physiology in donkeys/mules;Nutrition and malnutrition;Donkey and mule welfare;Dermatological disorders of donkeys/mules;Anesthesia, analgesia, and sedation in donkeys/mules;Dental disorders of donkeys;Clinical evaluation and preventative care of the donkey;Respiratory disorders of donkeys;Donkey and mule behavior;Clinical Pharmacology of donkeys;Key aspects of donkey and mule reproduction;and Foot Care and Practical Farriery for the Donkey.

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 497

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist

A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, stateseman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them—and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14. Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of indigenous descent, devoted the remai...