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Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone
by Alfred Stepan  Publisher Comments In Rethinking Military Politics the author takes a new look at themes raised in his earlier work on the state, the breakdown of democracy, and the military. The reader of this book will gain a fresh understanding of new democracies and democratic...
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Capoeira #02: Capoeira: The Jogo de Angola from Luanda to Cyberspace
by Gerard Taylor Publisher Comments The first in a two-volume series on capoeira, Volume One traces the origins of the popular martial art and dance form from the beginning of the slave trade in the Americas in the 1500s to the early years of the Brazilian Republic in the 20th century...
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The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864-1945 (Latin America Otherwise)
by Peter M Beattie Publisher Comments "A marvelous and broadly conceived study of great sweep, impressive documentation, and original insight. Beattie shows us how an imaginative study of the military can greatly illuminate issues of masculinity, nationalism, race, social control, and...
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Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions and Processes (Pitt Latin American)
by Peter Kingstone Publisher Comments After 21 years of military rule, Brazil returned to democracy in 1985. Over the past decade and a half, Brazilians in the Nova Republica (New Republic) have struggled with a range of diverse challenges that have tested the durability and quality of the...
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The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845-1895 (Pitt Latin American)
by Roger Ala Kittleson Publisher Comments The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil traces the history of high and low politics in nineteenth-centiry Brazil from the vantage point of the provincial capitol of Porto Alegre. Kittleson investigates the ways in which lower classes in this area...
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Politics in Brazil 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy
by Thomas E Skidmore Publisher Comments A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getulio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule--the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship--and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulence...
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Go-betweens and the Colization of Brazil : 1500-1600 (06 Edition)
by Alida C. Metcalf Publisher Comments Dona Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea--their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the...
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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...
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Rio De Janeiro (04 Edition)
by Castro Publisher Comments Castro delves into the past and present of Rio, where even in periods of comparative calm there has always been a palpable excitement in the air--the feeling of a city on fire....
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Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy #69: Vassouras, a Brazilian Coffee County, 1850-1900: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Plantation Society
by Stanley J Stein Publisher Comments This book is a now classic social and economic study of the origins, apogee, and decline of coffee in the Parahyba Valley of South Central Brazil. Local society, the free-planters, professionals, tradesmen, and lower class citizens-and the slaves, are...
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Father of the Poor?: Vargas and His Era (New Approaches to the Americas)
by Robert M. Levine Publisher Comments This book examines the life and times of Getúlio Vargas, Brazilian dictator and president for most of the period from 1930 to 1954. It asks how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives...
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The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000 (Ohio Ris Latin America)
by R. S. Rose Publisher Comments Portuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped an estimated four million slaves to Brazil?in contrast to the 500,000 slaves that English vessels brought to America. With such a vast number in servitude in Brazil, controlling them became of primary...
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Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil (Pitt Latin American)
by Kenneth P Serbin Publisher Comments Secret Dialogues uncovers an unexpected development in modern Latin American history: the existence of secret talks between generals and Roman Catholic bishops at the height of Brazil's military dictatorship. New archival sources demonstrate that the...
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Accidental President of Brazil (06 Edition)
by Fernando Henrique Cardoso Publisher Comments Fernando Henrique Cardoso received a phone call in the middle of the night asking him to be the new Finance Minister of Brazil. As he put the phone down and stared into the darkness of his hotel room, he feared he'd been handed a political death sentence....
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Brazilian Politics: Reforming a Democratic State in a Changing World
by Alfred Montero Publisher Comments Brazilian Politics offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the contemporary politics of South Americas largest democracy. Accessibly written for students, the book traces the major trends in Brazils political development and analyses...
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From Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835-1900 (Dialogos)
by Dale Torston Graden Publisher Comments Bahia is a province of Brazil on its northeastern coast and is the size of the country of France. From the sixteenth century through the 1850s, at least 1.2 million African slaves entered Brazil through Bahia, many of those through the major port city of...
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Capoeira and Candomblé: Conformity and Resistance through Afro-Brazilian Experience
by Floyd Merrell Book News Annotation Expect no deep scholarly treatment, warns Merrell (Purdue U.) as he draws on his personal experience and reading to provide an introduction and impression of the music-dance-sport Capoeira, created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candombel, a hybrid...
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The Unedited Diaries of Carolina Maria de Jesus
by Carolina M De Jesus Publisher Comments Carolina Maria de Jesus' best-selling book, Quarto de Despejo (The Trash Room), depicted the harsh life of the slums; it also spoke of the author's pride in her blackness, her high moral standards, and her patriotism. Since the 1960s, more than a million...
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Violence in the City of Women : Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil (07 Edition)
by Sarah J. Hautzinger Publisher Comments Brazil's innovative all-female police stations, installed as part of the return to civilian rule in the 1980s, mark the country's first effort to police domestic violence against women. Sarah J. Hautzinger's vividly detailed, accessibly written study...
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A Brief History of Brazil
by Teresa A. Meade Publisher Comments Only slightly smaller in size than the United...
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