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Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin Publisher Comments Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year In 1927, Henry Ford, the richest man in the world, bought a tract of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Latin America Readers) by Robert M Levine Publisher Comments Bordering all but two of South America’s other nations and by far Latin America’s largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and culturally from Spanish America. Its indigenous peoples share the country with descendants of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Last of the Tribe (10 Edition) by Monte Reel Publisher Comments Throughout the centuries, the Amazon has yielded many of its secrets, but it still holds a few great mysteries. In 1996 experts got their first glimpse of one: a lone Indian, a tribe of one, hidden in the forests of southwestern Brazil. Previously... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Assault on Paradise: Social Change in a Brazilian Village by Conrad Phill Kottak Publisher Comments This is a revision of a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplemental text in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Child of the Dark:: The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus by Carolina M De Jesus Publisher Comments The 50th anniversary edition of a powerful diary documenting the plight of the poor Carolina Maria de Jesus wrote her diary on scraps of paper each day while she scavenged through the squalid slums of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and tried to feed her three young... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Mass Market
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Brazil Since 1980: by Francisco Vida Luna Publisher Comments This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Pretty Modern: Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil by Alexander Edmonds Publisher Comments Pretty Modern is a riveting account of Brazil’s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery. Intrigued by a Carnaval parade that mysteriously paid homage to a Rio de Janeiro plastic surgeon, anthropologist Alexander Edmonds conducted research... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indigenous Resurgence in Brazil (Latin America Otherwise) by Jonathan W Warren Publisher Comments Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In Racial Revolutions&mdash... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brazilian Mosaic: Portraits of a Diverse People and Culture by G Harvey Summ Synopsis This selection of excerpts and essays delineates Brazilian culture as exemplified by its people. Two pieces that provide a general overview of Brazilian peoples are followed by four chronological sections, each of which is preceded by a historical sketch... (read more) List Price $43.25 Your price: $2.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Deepest Wounds (10 Edition) by Thomas D. Rogers Publisher Comments In The Deepest Wounds, Thomas D. Rogers traces social and environmental changes over four centuries in Pernambuco, Brazil’s key northeastern sugar-growing state. Focusing particularly on the period from the end of slavery in 1888 to the late... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $20.00 Used - Trade Paper
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To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil by Angus Lindsa Wright Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-357) and index.... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality: Race and Regional Identity in Northeastern Brazil (Pitt Latin American Studies) by Stanley E Blake Publisher Comments The Vigorous Core of Our Nationality explores conceptualizations of regional identity and a distinct population group known as nordestinos in northeastern Brazil during a crucial historical period. Beginning with the abolition of slavery and ending with... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Trade Paper
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Working women, working men :Säao Paulo and the rise of Brazil's industrial working class, 1900-1955 by Joel Wolfe Publisher Comments In Working Women, Working Men, Joel Wolfe traces the complex historical development of the working class in Sào Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sào Paulo's working men and women... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Autos and Progress (10 Edition) by Joel Wolfe Publisher Comments Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity by Joel Wolfe Publisher Comments Autos and Progress studies the automobile as both a tool and a cultural symbol of Brazil's status as a modern "developed" nation. As such it addresses debates on state-making, the role of multi-national corporations in the region, middle-class... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $20.30 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition Sao Paulo and Salvador by Kim D Butler Publisher Comments Winner of the American Historical Association's Wesley-Logan Prize and the Association of Black Women Historian's Letitia Woods Brown Prize "An important, original, much-needed comparative study of post-emancipation Brazil." --Joao Jose Reis... (read more) List Price $31.75 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Boris Fausto Publisher Comments A comprehensive and readable account of 500 years of Brazilian history.... (read more) List Price $28.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chapters of Brazil's Colonial History 1500-1800 by Joo Capistrano de Abreu Publisher Comments In Chapters in Brazil's Colonial History, Capistrano de Abreu created an integrated history of Brazil in a landmark work of scholarship that is also a literary masterpiece. Abreu offers a startlingly modern analysis of the past, based on the role of the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $8.28 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Schools in the Forest: How Grassroots Education Brought Political Empowerment to the Brazilian Amazon by Denis Heyck Publisher Comments Beginning in the 1960s, the Brazilian government aggressively developed the Amazon, opening the rainforests up to ranchers and loggers who began clear-cutting at a rapid pace. The indigenous subsistence farmers already living in these areas either fled... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents) by Felix Guattari Publisher Comments Molecular Revolution in BrazilFélix Guattari and Suely Rolniktranslated by Karel Clapshow and Brian HolmesYes, I believe that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of potentialities that appears and disappears, that is embodied in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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