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An English Family
Mr Richard Whitestone is English and a successful businessman based for many years in Oporto. Despite his many years’ residence in Portugal, he remains resolutely English in his tastes and in his accent. His favourite reading is Tristram Shandy, which he reads and re-reads constantly. A widower for many years, he lives with his children Jenny and Carlos. Jenny is the angel of the house and wise beyond her 21 years. Carlos is 18 and much given to carousing with his friends and to falling – very briefly – in love with whichever pretty girl he sees. He is the despair of his father, but his sister believes in him despite all, because she knows he has a good heart. One day, during Carnival, Carlos meets a young woman at a masked ball and falls in love. As ever, the path of true love runs very erratically indeed. Júlio Dinis is sometimes referred to as the Portuguese Trollope, and this, the first novel he wrote is a keen-eyed evocation of the narrow world of nineteenth-century bourgeois Oporto, but also, and more importantly, it is a brilliant account of family life, in all its flawed beauty.
Commerce Today
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National Union Catalog
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
As Pupilas do Senhor Reitor
Este romance desenha um retrato de uma aldeia portuguesa com personagens inesquecíveis: o Reitor da aldeia, José das Dornas e os seus filhos e, principalmente, João Semana, que se tornou símbolo do médico da província. Daniel, o filho mais novo de um lavrador bem-sucedido, parte da aldeia levando no coração a imagem da namorada de infância, a qual não tarda em apagar-se na capital. Quando regressa, é Clara, a irmã de Margarida, que atrai a sua atenção. Só que Clara é também a noiva do seu irmão Pedro...
Anthropology and Migration
Brettell's new book provides new insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. She analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing her extensive fieldwork in Portugal and many other countries. Key issues she discusses include: immigrant incorporation vs. assimilation models; the impacts on individual, household and community as well as institutions and states; ethnic group composition; illegal immigration; city vs. suburban enclaves; ethnic entrepreneurship; the role of religion; men and women as migrants; and the use of oral histories in understanding immigration and the mediation of new social boundaries. This book will be indispensable to instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, immigration studies, urban studies, sociology, and international relations. Visit our website for sample chapters!
