Historia & arkeologi

Com a sua temática arquetípica e grandiosidade estética, o Fausto se impõe como ápice e síntese da obra pioneira de Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Professor Saraiva's multi-volume History of Portugal is a celebrated scholarly standard work. Yet, when he published a one-volume Historia Concisa, it proved a run-away best seller in Portugal, and the television series that went with it beca...

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On the 25th April 1974, a coup destroyed the ranks of Portugal's fascist Estado Novo government as the Portuguese people flooded the streets of Lisbon, placing red carnations in the barrels of guns and demanding a `land for those who work in ...

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Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he ...

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Em jeito de desculpa... No nasci para ser livro. Nasci para ser apresentao de livro. Mas o apresentador - que pelo nome no perca - de h anos a esta parte tem a estulta pretenso de que tudo o que der texto, seja qual for o seu contedo ou circunstn...

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A histria do Pico das Contendas na Vila de S. Sebastio, ilha Terceira, Aores, rica e movimentada. A sua posse provocou no sculo XV uma luta de anos -mais de 30- nos tribunais. No sculo XVI e XVII esteve ligado a dois acontecimentos poltico-militar...

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O historiador Ferreira Drummond de mrito reconhecido em toda a pujana dos seus pseudnimos -variados e significativos- e da sua conscienciosa actuao como Presidente da Cmara da Vila de S. Sebastio que sempre corajosa e decididamente defendeu contra...

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The Municipality of Vila Verde (Minho, Portugal) has acquired a set of five paintings, in the 80's, believed to be the portraits of past Mayors, or some other prominent personalities from the county, but their origin and identity have always been ...

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Uma histria dum local real e rico de eventos , e do seu povo, com as suas vivncais e modos de ser. o porqeu da construo e como se procedeu mesma do Monumento.

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Voc j sentiu um certo desconforto ou falta de motivao para falar sobre dinheiro? Voc deixou algum assunto financeiramente importante para mais tarde, por convenincia? Ou ainda est adiando a criao do seu plano para obter independncia financeira sim...

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The death of a childless, unmarried wealthy Portuguese official, in Brazil, in the late 18th century, initiated a judicial process of inheritance that mobilized a considerable amount of relatives for 13 years (1795-1808). These inheritance files, ...

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Srgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why R...

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In The Formation of Souls: Imagery of the Republic in Brazil, Jos Murilo de Carvalho examines the birth of the Brazilian Republic in 1889. Given that the majority of the population of Brazil participated very little in the change from an empire to...

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First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Srgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and...

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First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Srgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and...

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Esse o primeiro volume da coletnea "Histria e Direito", que visa debater os Direitos e as questes sociais existentes na sociedade moderna. A coletnea consiste em cinco volumes que se conectam a partir do amadurecimento dos debates sobre seu tema ...

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Este livro apresenta os principais instrumentos musicais do Egito Antigo, suas variedades e suas tecnicas de execucao.

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Halloween Vegetable Horror  children's book creates a dynamically comical reading experience that addresses history and health of Halloween. Address a widely common issue of how to teach kids about Halloween. 1.     P...

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O início do século XIX foi um divisor de águas na história. A Europa enfrentava o auge de um levante revolucionário que marcaria o fim das monarquias autocráticas. A Revolução Industrial unia novas forças econômicas que transformariam a tecnologia...

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This concise people's history of Europe tells the story of the last hundred years of a very old continent and the ordinary people that shaped the events that defined it from World War I to today. From the Russian Revolution, through May &apos...

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The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. ...

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