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Chronicle of the Murdered House
Set in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais, the novel relates the dissolution of a once proud patriarchal family now represented by Timoteo, a gay scion who wanders the ancestral mansion dressed in his mother's clothes. This downfall, peppered by stories of decadence, adultery, incest, and madness, is related through a variety of narrative devices, including letters, diaries, memoirs, statements, confessions, and accounts penned by the various characters.
Os bispos de Olinda
Já na sua maturidade, em 1921, Francisco Augusto Pereira da Costa escreveu uma série de artigos intitulada "Os bispos de Olinda (1676–1910)", com perfis das principais figuras eclesiásticas de Pernambuco. São textos valiosos para se entender a história de Pernambuco como um todo. Esta edição, organizada e anotada por Bruno Almeida de Melo, retoma a ideia original de publicar os artigos como obra própria, com um minucioso trabalho de pesquisa a partir dos escritos de Pereira da Costa. Ao longo do texto e na bibliografia, nota-se o esforço impressionante de Bruno para recuperar com o máximo de exatidão possível as inúmeras fontes consultadas pelo historiador. A publicação ainda traz outro texto de Pereira da Costa, o Instituição da Igreja Pernambucana, e traduções inéditas, diretamente do latim, de três bulas papais.
Petrobras
A história da experiência do autor na Petrobras revela claramente quão prejudicial pode ser a interferência do Estado na atividade econômica, principal responsável pelo lento crescimento de nossa economia e por uma verdadeira fábrica de pobres. Uma empresa estatal de grande porte exercendo atividades típicas da iniciativa privada é prejudicial para a economia, sendo a melhor alternativa privatizar. Sob controle estatal, a Petrobras continuará a se comportar como uma nau sem rumo num mar de desperdício de recursos.
Conditional Cash Transfers
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs aim to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the receivers' actions. That is, the government only transfers the money to persons who meet certain criteria. These criteria may include enrolling children into public schools, getting regular check-ups at the doctor's office, receiving vaccinations, or the like. They have been hailed as a way of reducing inequality and helping households break out of a vicious cycle whereby poverty is transmitted from one generation to another. Do these and other claims make sense? Are they supported by the available empirical evidence? This volume seeks to answer these and other related questions. Sp...
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Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America. Portuguese Jews and New Christians and their descendants were deeply involved in the colonial enterprise in Brazil. They were among the New World’s first sugarcane-industry experts, skilled laborers, merchants, rabbis, calligraphists, playwrights, poets, writers, pharmacists, medical doctors, real estate brokers, and geographers—a fact that remains largely unknown in most public and academic spheres. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.
Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.
