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As Identidades do Brasil 2: de Calmon a Bomfim
Dando prosseguimento ao primeiro volume, Jose Carlos Reis apresenta agora este 'A favor do Brasil: direita ou esquerda?', dedicado à discussão das "identidades do Brasil (anos 1930), de Pedro Calmon a Manoel Bomfim", passando por Afonso Arinos de Mello Franco e Oliveira Vianna. Esses autores interpretaram a "civilização brasileira", construíram uma intriga da história brasileira, com princípio, meio e fim, com origem, sentido, significado. Diferentemente do primeiro volume, os intérpretes não se sucederão em ordem cronológica, mas em ordem ideológica, pois as obras analisadas são todas dos anos 1930. O leque das interpretações analisadas vai da extrema direita à rebeldia mais radical. As interpretações da "direita" serão representadas por Pedro Calmon, Afonso Arinos e Oliveira Vianna, cada um mais conservador do que o outro; a interpretação da "esquerda" será uma única, a de Manoel Bomfim, que procura demolir as primeiras, por um lado, racionalmente, em seus apoios teórico-metodológicos e em suas principais teses e, por outro, furiosamente, em suas propostas políticas e formas de agir.
História da "Consciência Histórica" Ocidental Contemporânea - Hegel, Nietzsche, Ricoeur
A relação entre história e filosofia é conturbada. Os historiadores nunca apreciaram a companhia dos filósofos, por creditarem à filosofia um caráter especulativo, abstrato. De fato, o historiador deve insistir na concretude dos fatos, nos anais e no caráter investigativo da historiografia. Entretanto, a distância absoluta deste com relação à filosofia é equivocada, porque os historiadores que ignoram os estudos filosóficos deixam de compreender sua própria atividade. E é exatamente isso que José Carlos Reis discute nesta obra. Para o autor, as diferenças entre as duas disciplinas são grandes, mas não há antagonismo entre elas, muito pelo contrário. Ele entende que sem ...
VipIMAGE 2019
This book gathers full papers presented at the VipIMAGE 2019—VII ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing—held on October 16-18, 2019, in Porto, Portugal. It discusses cutting-edge methods, findings, and applications related to 3D vision, bio- and medical imaging, computer-aided diagnosis, image enhancement, image processing and analysis, virtual reality, and also describes in detail advanced image analysis techniques, such as image segmentation and feature selection, as well as statistical and geometrical modeling. The book provides both researchers and professionals with extensive and timely insights into advanced imaging techniques for various application purposes.
Marxist Historiographies
Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed. Edited by two highly respected authors in the field, this book deals with the effect of Marxism on historical writings not only in parts of Europe, where it originated, but also in countries and regions in Africa, Asia, North and South America and the Middle East. Rather than presenting the chapters geographically, it is structured with respect t...
Utopias of Otherness
Forges a new understanding of how these two Lusophone nations are connected. The closely entwined histories of Portugal and Brazil remain key references for understanding developments--past and present--in either country. Accordingly, Fernando Arenas considers Portugal and Brazil in relation to one another in this exploration of changing definitions of nationhood, subjectivity, and utopias in both cultures. Examining the two nations' shared language and histories as well as their cultural, social, and political points of divergence, Arenas pursues these definitive changes through the realms of literature, intellectual thought, popular culture, and political discourse. Both Brazil and Portuga...
Autos and Progress
Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and consumer culture; auto workers and their creation of a national political party; and the economic and environmental ...
Humanities
Beginning with volume 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 more than 130 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 under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Writing Journalism History
This book examines the trajectory of the historical knowledge about journalism produced by its scholars in Brazil, from the early accounts originating from the Brazilian Historical and Geographic Institute in the 19th century to the specialized academic field at the turn of the 21st century. The history of journalism historiography shows that during the Empire and the Old Republic, the press was idealized as a means of education and a form of mirror of events. After the New State, there was a tendency to view it as an instrument for manipulating public opinion and a suspicious documentary source in the eyes of historians. Finally, with the end of the Military Regime, and with the emergence o...
A Companion to Magical Realism
The Companion to Magical Realism provides an assessment of the world-wide impact of a movement which was incubated in Germany, flourished in Latin America and then spread to the rest of the world. It provides a set of up-to-date assessments of the work of writers traditionally associated with magical realism such as Gabriel Garc a M rquez in particular his recently published memoirs], Alejo Carpentier, Miguel ngel Asturias, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende, Laura Esquivel and Salman Rushdie, as well as bringing into the fold new authors such as W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Jos Saramago, Dorit Rabinyan, Ovid, Mar a Luisa Bombal, Ibrahim al-Kawni, Mayra Montero, Nakagami Kenji, Jos Eustasio Rivera and...
Feeding a Hungry Planet
Rice is the food crop the world depends on most. In Feeding a Hungry Planet, James Lang demonstrates how research has benefited rice growers and increased production. He describes the life cycle of a rice crop and explains how research is conducted and how the results end up growing in a farmer's field. Focusing on Asia and Latin America, Lang explores lowland and upland rice systems, genetics, sustainable agriculture, and efforts to narrow the gap between yields at research stations and those on working farms. Ultimately, says Lang, the ability to feed growing populations and protect fragile ecologies depends as much on the sustainable on-site farm technologies as on high-yielding crop vari...
