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Propagandists of the Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Propagandists of the Book

Pedro Feitoza traces the history of Protestantism in Brazil through an analysis of the production and circulation of evangelical texts. Examining a wide range of periodicals, tracts, correspondence, and other archival records and delving into the ideology of religious thinkers and evangelists of the time, Feitoza considers how Protestant veneration of the written word led to a complex infrastructure for the distribution of religious texts and the fostering of literacy in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Landscapes of Freedom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Landscapes of Freedom

Looking at the interaction of race and terrain during a critical period in Latin American history--Provided by publisher.

Nationalizing Nature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Nationalizing Nature

An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.

Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 755

Peopling for Profit in Imperial Brazil

Peopling for Profit provides a comprehensive history of migration to nineteenth-century imperial Brazil. Rather than focus on Brazilian slavery or the mass immigration of the end of the century, José Juan Pérez Meléndez examines the orchestrated efforts of migrant recruitment, transport to, and settlement in post-independence Brazil. The book explores Brazil's connections to global colonization drives and migratory movements, unveiling how the Brazilian Empire's engagement with privately run colonization models from overseas crucially informed the domestic sphere. It further reveals that the rise of a for-profit colonization model indelibly shaped Brazilian peopling processes and governance by creating a feedback loop between migration management and government formation. Pérez Meléndez sheds new light on how directed migrations and the business of colonization shaped Brazilian demography as well as enduring social, racial, and class inequalities. This title is part of the Flip it Open programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 235

Kongo in the Age of Empire, 1860–1913

An insightful look at the onset of colonialism in Central Africa from economic, religious, and political perspectives, examining the ultimately tragic participation of African elites in colonial rule.

Lutero e a reforma religiosa
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 47

Lutero e a reforma religiosa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Este livro faz parte da coleção 'Para Conhecer Melhor', que tem por objetivo aprofundar os conhecimentos de temas históricos importantes, porém não tão trabalhados nas escolas. A obra fornece uma fonte de pesquisa acessível e atraente sobre assuntos representativos da História do Brasil e do Mundo.

A Living Past
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 310

A Living Past

Though still a relatively young field, the study of Latin American environmental history is blossoming, as the contributions to this definitive volume demonstrate. Bringing together thirteen leading experts on the region, A Living Past synthesizes a wide range of scholarship to offer new perspectives on environmental change in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean since the nineteenth century. Each chapter provides insightful, up-to-date syntheses of current scholarship on critical countries and ecosystems (including Brazil, Mexico, the Caribbean, the tropical Andes, and tropical forests) and such cross-cutting themes as agriculture, conservation, mining, ranching, science, and urbanization. Together, these studies provide valuable historical contexts for making sense of contemporary environmental challenges facing the region.

My German Brother
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

My German Brother

Ciccio already has many problems: romantic failure, an older brother who seems intent on breaking the heart of every beautiful woman in São Paulo, a distant and larger-than-life father. When Ciccio finds, among the many of his father’s books that line the walls of their house, a troubling letter dated ‘December 21, 1931. Berlin’, his existential crisis only intensifies. It seems that his father once had a child with another woman – a German son whose fate remains unclear. Ciccio sets out on a mission to locate his lost half-brother, and to win the respect of his father. But as Brazil's military government cracks down on dissent, and rumours of arrests and disappearances spread, whil...

Oktoberfest in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

Oktoberfest in Brazil

An ethnography that explores Brazil's domestic tourism through sensescapes and the economy of aesthetics framework

Volkswagen in the Amazon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Volkswagen in the Amazon

The first history of the German multinational's resounding failure in its global development project of a cattle ranch in the Brazilian Amazon.