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World events should not distract the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) from its efforts to promote a stronger bilateral relationship between the UK and Brazil. The rise of Brazil as a world power represents an opportunity for the UK, not a threat and the FCO is correct to identify Brazil's potential to be a "good news story" for the UK. The UK has taken the correct preliminary steps to strengthen the bilateral relationship. The UK's support for permanent Brazilian membership of the UN Security Council, as part of a wider UN reform is to be particularly welcomed. Brazil as a developing, democratic country can play a vital role in representing the "global South". The Government must mainta...
The political and religious forces which led to the decline of the slave trade in nineteenth century Bahia, Brazil.
This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.
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Journalism and communications scholar Michael Emery reveals some of the difficulties facing foreign correspondents covering overseas events, telling some of the "stories behind the stories" surrounding key world events in the 20th century and the coverage they received in the American media. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Robert Khatlab ha preparado esta bibliografía anotada en colaboración con el Lebanese Emigration Research Center como un recurso de información para aquellas personas interesadas en conocer la emigración libanesa o en investigaciones comparativas en el campo de las migraciones. Recoge trabajos de una gran variedad de disciplinas, incluyendo la historia, sociología, etnología, ciencia política, medios de comunicación, economía, poesía y literatura. La bibliografía comienza con una introducción a la historia de la emigración libanesa a Brasil, seguida de aproximadamente 300 títulos de libros, artículos y documentos procedentes de una amplia gama de fuentes. Además, la bibliografía recoge direcciones de archivos, centros de investigación, prensa árabe, embajadas, consulados, clubs, asociaciones, ligas, federaciones, centros religiosos, puertos y hospitales, indicaciones de películas, páginas web y acuerdos bilaterales, todas ellas fuentes relevantes para llevar a cabo un estudio comprensivo de la emigración libanesa en Brasil.
Since 1824, Bahians have marked independence with a popular festival that contrasts sharply with the official commemoration of Brazil's independence on 7 September. The Dois de Julho (2 July) festival celebrates the day the Portuguese troops were expelled from Salvador in 1823, the culmination of a year-long war that gave independence a radical meaning in Bahia. Bahia's Independence traces the history of the Dois de Julho festival in Salvador, the Brazilian state's capital, from 1824 to 1900. Hendrik Kraay discusses how the festival draws on elements of saints' processions, carnivals, and civic ritual in the use of such distinctive features as the indigenist symbols of independence called th...