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An insightful look at how Brazil and Argentina employed national parks to develop and settle frontier areas.
Feeding the World documents the emergence of Brazil as an agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century.
"Viva o povo! morte aos traidores!" as quimeras do sertão em Minas Gerais. Luciano Figueiredo. Formas de vida e resistência dos lavradores-pastores do Rio Grande no período colonial. Helen Osório. O mato, a roça e a enxada: a horticultura quilombola no Brasil escravista (séculos XVI-XIX). Mário Maestri e Aldemir Fiabani. Posseiros no oitocentos e a construção do mito invasor no Brasil (1822-1850). Márcia Maria M. Motta. Rompendo o silêncio: conflitos consuetudinários e litigiosos em terras pró-indivisas (juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais - século XIX). Elione S. Guimarães. Senhores de terra e intrusos: os despejos judiciais na Campanha Rio-Grandense oitocentista (Alegrete, 1830-1880)...
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review 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 140 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Since the first contact with Europeans, the Americas have been a continent of immigrants as much as a continent of continuous migrations. Black migrations represent more than the transit of people between countries and regions and from rural areas to urban centers. It contributed to constructing networks that made survival possible, creating neighborhoods and cultural expression, impacting dietary habits, exchanging crops and agricultural techniques, and uplifting families from slavery and misery to ownership, education, and political representation. The most dangerous elements that moved from place to place with blacks were the ideas of freedom and citizenship. This book brings together art...
Em 1979, no momento em que lançava a “Abertura lenta, gradual e segura”, a ditadura militar foi profundamente constrangida pela publicação, pelo jornalista Julio José Chiavenato, de Genocídio americano: a guerra do Paraguai, que alcançou inesperado sucesso, sem qualquer divulgação pela grande mídia. A denúncia do conflito como enorme crime do Império do Brasil e de seu exército, contra um pequeno país que, segundo o autor, destoaria nas Américas pelo desenvolvimento econômico e social autônomo, em independência e em contradição com o imperialismo inglês, conquistou os corações de multidões de leitores, que certamente viram nele também um ajuste de contas com os ma...
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Examine new trends in the writing of new history—and what they mean to information science! History has been devalued, causing a lack of career prospects for historians, a decrease in vocations to the history profession, and historical discontinuity between generations. History Under Debate: International Reflection on the Discipline is a recap of the crucial Second International Historia a Debate conference, held on July 17, 1999 in Santiago de Compostela. This book details the comparative critical perspectives on history, historians, their audiences, and the coming trends that will inevitably impact information science. The in-depth examination provides innovative approaches to historian...