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During the late 1860s, Southerners dissatisfied with the outcome of the Civil War and fearful of the extent of Union reprisals migrated to Brazil to build a new life. This collection of essays examines the experiences of southern Confederate exiles in Brazil and their continuing legacy.
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The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil
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Brazil is a land of global superlatives, boasting the best soccer, the largest rainforest and the world’s worst social and economic inequity. Its vibrant culture is best known for Carnival and samba and attracts thousands of visitors every year. The Carnival capital of Rio also showcases Brazil’s contrasts, as the shanty towns of the dispossessed cling to spectacular mountainsides, overlooking the beach playgrounds of the rich. Brazil in Focus is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to the giant of Latin America. It explores: the history, the people, the politics, the economy, the Amazon and the environment, the culture and where to go and what to see.
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In Focus Brazil a Guide to the People Politics and Culture
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As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. On three separate occasions, Isabel was named regent, or head of state, when her father was required to leave the country for extended periods. On each occasion, she served as the dutiful daughter, following her father’s instructions to the letter and resisting any attempts at personal aggrandizement. During her third regency, as her father recuperated in Europe, rather than accumulate personal power and oppose the forces of republicanism and abolition, Isabel personally led the struggle to pass the Gold Law of 1888 abolishing slavery throughout Brazil, thus ridding the country of one of the institutions upon which traditional monarchical Brazil was based and speeding the downfall of the monarchy, the monarchy she would inherit, in 1889.
Princess Isabel of Brazil examines Isabel’s role as an extraordinary woman who had access to material wealth and education and power, in patriarchal nineteenth-century Brazil. Professor Barman looks at how her life was constrained by her subordinate roles as daughter, wife, mother, and even as empress-in-waiting, using the fascinating career of Isabel to examine the interplay of gender and power in the nineteenth century.
This new book is an excellent resource for courses biography, women’s studies, and Latin American history courses.
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Princess Isabel of Brazil: Gender and Power in the Nineteenth Century
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Written by a widely recognized legal team from a premier Brazilian law firm, this title explains key issues and pitfalls potentially arising from clients commercial transactions in Brazil. It provides a pragmatic overview and general reference for a basic but relevant understanding of the Brazilian laws and regulations affecting business investments and operations in Brazil. Its 17 chapters cover topics such as regulatory agencies, intellectual property, employment and labor, commercial litigation and arbitration, real estate, environmental regulations, bankruptcy and insolvency, and many more.
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Business Laws of Brazil, 2009-2010 ed.
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Subtitle: With an Appendix Containing Statistics and Observations on Climate, Railways Central Sugar Factories, Mining, Commerce, and Finance … General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1887 Original Publisher: S. Low, Marston, Searle,
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Exploring and Travelling Three Thousand Miles Through Brazil From Rio De Janeiro to Maranhão
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In 1865, twenty-three-year-old William James began his studies at the Harvard Medical School. When he learned that one of his most esteemed professors, Louis Agassiz, then director of the recently established Museum of Comparative Zoology, was preparing a research expedition to Brazil, James offered his services as a voluntary collector. Over the course of a year, James kept a diary, wrote letters to his family, and sketched the plants, animals, and people he observed. During this journey, James spent time primarily in Rio de Janeiro, Belem, and Manaus, and along the rivers and tributaries of the Amazon Basin.
This volume is a critical, bilingual (English-Portuguese) edition of William James’s diaries and letters and also includes reproductions of his drawings. This original material belongs to the Houghton Archives at Harvard University and is of great interest to both William James scholars and Brazilian studies experts.
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Brazil through the Eyes of William James: Diaries, Letters, and Drawings, 1865-1866
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The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000
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Brazil is currently in a critical phase of a decades-long transformation from a patrimonial society-based on the cultivation and export of sugar and coffee-to a modernized industrial and service economy with effective democratic governance. It is the world’s fifth largest nation-state in area and population, and ranks eighth in total economic output. Since World War II, Brazil has been a leader in international trade governance and negotiation, playing an important part in development of the GATT and the WTO. Currently, the country is a major factor in negotiations toward a hemispherewide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). However, Brazil’s political record in the past half century has been erratic and it has struggled with high inflation and balance-of-payment deficits. In this major new work, a former American ambassador to Brazil examines the social, political, and economic history of the country since the 1930s and discusses whether Brazil is now ready to assume a place as an important participant among First World nations.
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Brazil’s Second Chance: En Route Toward the First World
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