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Agriculture's Energy
Thomas D. Rogers’s history of a modernizing Brazil tracks what happened when a key government program,created in the 1970s by the nation’s military regime, aspired to harness energy produced by sugarcane agriculture to power the country’s economy. The National Alcohol Program, known as Proálcool, was a deliberate economic strategy designed to incentivize ethanol production and reduce gasoline consumption. As Brazil’s capacity grew and as international oil shocks continued, the regime’s planners doubled down on Proálcool. Drawing financing from international lenders and curiosity from other oil-dependent countries, for a time it was the world’s largest oil-substitution and renew...
Sweet Fuel
Early sugar and ethanol policy, 1933-1959 -- Sugar, ethanol, and development, 1959-1975 -- Proálcool, 1975-1985 -- Lakes of sacrifice: ethanol and water pollution -- Proálcool, caneworkers, and the guariba strikes of 1984 -- Proálcool reimagined, 1985-2003.
Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil
The success of Brazil in the large-scale production and use of fuel ethanol has been widely discussed and analyzed by other countries interested in adopting policies designed to encourage the use of biofuels. Within this context, certain questions arise: Could the Brazilian experience be replicated in other countries? What were the conditions that enabled the creation of the Brazilian Proálcool (National Ethanol Program and what lessons can be learned? To examine these issues, it is important to understand the functioning of the key, interconnected markets (those for sugarcane, sugar and ethanol), which, from their inception, were the objects of extensive government intervention until 1999....
Brazilian Slavery
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The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery 1850 - 1888
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade
He covers a major aspect of the history of the international abolition of the slave trade.
Placar Magazine
PLACAR: a maior revista brasileira de futebol. Notícias, perfis, entrevistas, fotos exclusivas.
OUTROS MUNDOS
Essa trilogia é uma composição literária que apresenta, a partir de narrativas ficcionais, histórias impactantes de encontros e desencontros de pessoas que circulam como personagens-tipos na invisibilidade social do espaço urbano central da cidade de São Paulo. Apesar da mesma temática, de certa continuidade do argumento e permanência de certos personagens, são obras individuais que se passam de 1994 a 2018.
