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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present
Häftad, 2013
435 kr
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country …
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Häftad, 2015
435 kr
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In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and …
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Häftad, 2010
385 kr
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This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The …
Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present
Inbunden, 2013
854 kr
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Immigration, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Brazil, 1808 to the Present examines the immigration to Brazil of millions of Europeans, Asians and Middle Easterners beginning in the nineteenth century. Jeffrey Lesser analyzes how these newcomers and their descendants adapted to their new country …
The Women of Colonial Latin America
Inbunden, 2015
1391 kr
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In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and …
Mosquito Empires
Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
Inbunden, 2010
1391 kr
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This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for …
Mosquito Empires
Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620-1914
Häftad, 2010
452 kr
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This book explores the links among ecology, disease, and international politics in the context of the Greater Caribbean - the landscapes lying between Surinam and the Chesapeake - in the seventeenth through early twentieth centuries. Ecological changes made these landscapes especially suitable for …
Father of the Poor?
Vargas and his Era
Av Robert M. Levine, Stuart Schwartz
Inbunden, 1998
770 kr
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This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual …
Father of the Poor?
Vargas and his Era
Av Robert M. Levine, Stuart Schwartz
Häftad, 1998
435 kr
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This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual …
In Search of an Inca
Identity and Utopia in the Andes
Av Alberto Flores Galindo, Carlos Aguirre
Inbunden, 2010
1391 kr
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In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century. It stresses the recurrence of the 'Andean Utopia', that is, the …
In Search of an Inca
Identity and Utopia in the Andes
Av Alberto Flores Galindo, Carlos Aguirre m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
418 kr
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In Search of an Inca examines how people in the Andean region have invoked the Incas to question and rethink colonialism and injustice, from the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century until the late twentieth century. It stresses the recurrence of the 'Andean Utopia', that is, the …
An Environmental History of Latin America
Häftad, 2007
435 kr
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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin …
Born to Die
Disease and New World Conquest, 1492-1650
Av Noble David Cook, Stuart Schwartz
Häftad, 1998
401 kr
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The biological mingling of the Old and New Worlds began with the first voyage of Columbus. The exchange was a mixed blessing: it led to the disappearance of entire peoples in the Americas, but it also resulted in the rapid expansion and consequent economic and military hegemony of Europeans. …
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
Av Laird Bergad
Häftad, 2007
477 kr
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This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local …
Chica da Silva
A Brazilian Slave of the Eighteenth Century
Av Júnia Ferreira Furtado
Häftad, 2008
448 kr
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Júnia Ferreira Furtado offers a fascinating study of the world of a freed woman of color in a small Brazilian town where itinerant merchants, former slaves, Portuguese administrators and concubines interact across social and cultural lines. The child of an African slave and a Brazilian military …
The Caudillo of the Andes
Andrés de Santa Cruz
Häftad, 2011
418 kr
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Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and 1839 he created the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. The epitome of an Andean caudillo, with armed forces …
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Inbunden, 2010
1378 kr
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This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with a basic understanding of the current state of scholarly knowledge of forced African migration and compares this knowledge to popular beliefs. The …
Goods, Power, History
Latin America's Material Culture
Av Arnold J. Bauer, Stuart Schwartz
Inbunden, 2001
1351 kr
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Why do we acquire the things we do? Behind this apparently ingenuous question are several answers, some straightforward and others more interesting. To feed ourselves, might be the first response, for we can easily see that we expend much energy in the quest for food. Clothing and shelter as well …
Goods, Power, History
Latin America's Material Culture
Häftad, 2001
422 kr
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Why do we acquire the things we do? Behind this apparently ingenuous question are several answers, some straightforward and others more interesting. To feed ourselves, might be the first response, for we can easily see that we expend much energy in the quest for food. Clothing and shelter as well …
Caetana Says No
Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
Av Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Stuart Schwartz
Inbunden, 2002
754 kr
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This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the …
An Environmental History of Latin America
Inbunden, 2007
1391 kr
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A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period that begins with Amerindian civilizations and concludes in the region's present urban agglomerations, the work offers an original synthesis of the current scholarship on Latin …
The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States
Av Laird Bergad
Inbunden, 2007
1274 kr
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This 2007 book is an introductory history of racial slavery in the Americas. Brazil and Cuba were among the first colonial societies to establish slavery in the early sixteenth century. Approximately a century later British colonial Virginia was founded, and slavery became an integral part of local …
Caetana Says No
Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society
Av Sandra Lauderdale Graham, Stuart Schwartz
Häftad, 2002
385 kr
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This 2002 book presents the true and dramatic accounts of two nineteenth-century Brazilian women - one young and born a slave, the other old and from an illustrious planter family - and how each sought to retain control of their lives: the slave woman struggling to avoid an unwanted husband; the …
The Caudillo of the Andes
Andrés de Santa Cruz
Inbunden, 2011
1290 kr
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Born in La Paz in 1792, Andrés de Santa Cruz lived through the turbulent times that led to independence across Latin America. He fought to shape the newly established republics, and between 1836 and 1839 he created the Peru-Bolivia Confederation. The epitome of an Andean caudillo, with armed forces …
Medicine and Public Health in Latin America
A History
Av Marcos Cueto, Steven Palmer
Inbunden, 2014
1362 kr
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Despite several studies on the social, cultural, and political histories of medicine and of public health in different parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, local and national focuses still predominate, and there are few panoramic studies that analyze the overarching tendencies in the …
The Spanish Atlantic World in the Eighteenth Century
War and the Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796
Av Allan J. Kuethe, Kenneth J. Andrien
Inbunden, 2014
1123 kr
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This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the Spanish empire struggled for survival amid the fierce international …
Divining Slavery and Freedom
The Story of Domingos Sodré, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Inbunden, 2015
1613 kr
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Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil …
The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet
An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil
Av Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sá
Inbunden, 2015
1263 kr
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This is the first critical edition of the original 1625 travel account by Anthony Knivet, an Englishman who spent nine years in Brazil in the last decade of the sixteenth century. His is the oldest extensive account of Brazil written by an Englishman, but despite its historical, geographical, and …
Becoming Brazilians
Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Inbunden, 2017
1723 kr
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This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become …
Divining Slavery and Freedom
The Story of Domingos Sodré, an African Priest in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Häftad, 2015
485 kr
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Since its original publication in Portuguese in 2008, this first English translation of Divining Slavery has been extensively revised and updated, complete with new primary sources and a new bibliography. It tells the story of Domingos Sodré, an African-born priest who was enslaved in Bahia, Brazil …
