Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Stringing Together a Nation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 252

Stringing Together a Nation

DIVThis analysis of the career of Candido Rondon, an army officer who founded and directed Brazil's Indian Protection Service, provides an avenue to deconstruct recent Brazilian historiography on nation building, indigenous people, and state action./div

A Parisian in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

A Parisian in Brazil

This virtually unknown, insightful account by a highly intelligent, observant and forthright Frenchwoman of her decade-long stay in Brazil during the 1850s provides a remarkable firsthand view of a slaveocrat society. In an effort to improve their family's fortune, enterprising and highspirited young Parisian Ad_le Toussaint-Samson traveled with her husband from France to Brazil in the mid 1800s. While there, she wrote of her experiences, painting a vivid and detailed portrait of the reality of slavery, gender relations. and daily life in mid-nineteenth century Brazil. Translated into English by her daughter Emma in 1891, Toussaint's book is one of few first person accounts by a female sojou...

The Brazilian Year Book
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 918

The Brazilian Year Book

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1908
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 231

Libraries and Archives in the Digital Age

The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about value across the institutional boundaries that typically separate us.

Simulation of Urban Mobility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

Simulation of Urban Mobility

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2014-11-06
  • -
  • Publisher: Springer

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Simulation of Urban Mobility, SUMO 2013, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented tin this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in two topical sections: models and technical innovations and applications and surveys.

Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

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

“Rohter’s crisp biography is a welcome addition to the new, more inclusive canon.” —Rachel Slade, New York Times Book Review 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. ...

Consular Reports
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 716

Consular Reports

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1897
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

Dicionário histórico-biográfico da propaganda no Brasil
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 276
Consular Reports
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 716

Consular Reports

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1897
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None

A Collection of Pamphlets on the Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

A Collection of Pamphlets on the Presbyterian Church of Rio de Janeiro

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 1898
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

None