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Lula of Brazil: The Story So Far
by Richard Bourne  Publisher Comments Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's dramatic life story has captured the imagination of millions, and his progressive politics have brought hope and excitement to Brazil--and the world. This compelling work is the first major English-language biography of the...
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To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil
by Angus Lindsay Wright Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-357) and index....
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The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
by May Talmon Chvaicer Publisher Comments Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late eighteenth century, capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused...
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Brazil Since 1980:
by Francisco Vida Luna Synopsis This general survey tracks Brazil's societal, economic, and political development since 1980. In this period, during which Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed to a modern industrial democratic society, basic changes occurred...
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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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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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Molecular Revolution in Brazil (Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents)
by Suely Rolnik Publisher Comments Yes, I believe that there is a multiple people, a people of mutants, a people of potentialities that appears and disappears, that is embodied in social, literary, and musical events.... I think that we're in a period of productivity, proliferation...
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The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus (Dialogos)
by Robert M Levine Publisher Comments In the dozen years Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977) lived in a So Paulo, Brazil, shanty slum, she survived by rummaging for junk. She also kept a diary of her abject poverty. Black, illegitimate, and poor, she suddenly became at age forty-six Brazils...
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Engendering Latin America #4: I'm Going to Have a Little House: The Second Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
by Carolina M De Jesus Publisher Comments In August 1960 the publication of Quarto de Despejo (Child of the Dark) created a sensation in Brazil—and in the rest of the world—as it appeared in translations in fourteen languages. That diary of a poor black woman from a favela on the...
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The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas)
by Jens Andermann Publisher Comments The Optic of the State traces the production of nationalist imaginaries through the public visual representation of modern state formation in Brazil and Argentina. As Jens Andermann reveals, the foundational visions of national heritage, territory, and...
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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 Sao Paulo, Brazil, Latin America's largest industrial center. He studies the way in which Sao Paulo's working men and women experienced Brazil's...
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Black Into White : Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought (93 Edition)
by Thomas E. Skidmore Synopsis Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and...
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A Death in Brazil: A Book of Omissions (John MacRae Books)
by Peter Robb Publisher Comments Combining travel, history, culture, and his own memories of twenty years of Brazilian life, the author of Midnight in Sicily delves into the past and present of a country that affects our imagination like few other places on earth From his own near...
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opting for democracy liberation theology & the struggle for democracy in brazil
by iain maclean Publisher Comments Maclean (Western religious thought, James Madison University) examines Brazilian liberation theology and its understanding of democracy within its ecclesiastical and national political contexts. He contends that the original theoretical paradigm of...
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The Accidental President of Brazil: A Memoir
by Fernando 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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The Thief at the End of the World: Rubber, Power, and the Seeds of Empire
by Joe Jackson Publisher Comments The story of one man's journey down the Amazon and how it changed history. In 1876, a man named Henry Wickham smuggled seventy thousand rubber tree seeds out of the rainforests of Brazil and delivered them to Victorian England's most prestigious...
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Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone
by Alfred Stepan Synopsis 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 Synopsis "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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