Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Download Backlands PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Backlands book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Euclides da Cunha
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-05-25
Backlands written by Euclides da Cunha and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-25 with Fiction categories.
An important new translation of a fundamental work of Brazilian literature Written by a former army lieutenant, civil engineer, and journalist, Backlands is Euclides da Cunha's vivid and poignant portrayal of Brazil's infamous War of Canudos. The deadliest civil war in Brazilian history, the conflict during the 1890s was between the government and the village of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia, which had been settled by 30,000 followers of the religious zealot Antonio Conselheiro. Far from just an objective retelling, da Cunha's story shows both the significance of this event and the complexities of Brazilian society. Published here in a new translation by Elizabeth Lowe, and featuring an introduction by one of the foremost scholars of Latin America, this is sure to remain one of the best chronicles of war ever penned.
Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael McGarrity
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-05-06
Backlands written by Michael McGarrity and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-06 with Fiction categories.
In the New York Times bestselling Hard Country, Michael McGarrity gave readers “an expansive, lyrical period Western in the tradition of A. B. Guthrie Jr. and Larry McMurtry” (Hampton Sides). Now McGarrity continues his richly authentic epic of life on the last vestiges of the twentieth-century American frontier. Scarred by the loss of an older brother he idolized, estranged from a father he barely knows, and deeply troubled by the failing health of a mother he adores, young Matthew Kerney is suddenly and irrevocably forced to set aside his childhood and take on responsibilities far beyond his years. When the world spirals into the Great Depression and drought settles like a plague over the nation, Matt must abandon his own dreams to salvage the Kerney ranch. Plunged into a deep trough of dark family secrets, hidden crimes, broken promises, and lies, Matt must struggle to survive on the unforgiving, sun-blasted Tularosa Basin.
Rebellion In The Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Euclides da Cunha
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-01-15
Rebellion In The Backlands written by Euclides da Cunha and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-15 with History categories.
Euclides da Cunha's classic account of the brutal campaigns against religious mystic Antonio Conselheiro has been called the Bible of Brazilian nationality. "Euclides da Cunha went on the campaigns [against Conselheiro] as a journalist and what he returned with and published in 1902 is still unsurpassed in Latin American literature. Cunha is a talent as grand, spacious, entangled with knowledge, curiosity, and bafflement as the country itself. . . . On every page there is a heart of idea, speculation, dramatic observation that tells of a creative mission undertaken, the identity of the nation, and also the creation of a pure and eloquent prose style."—Elizabeth Hardwick, Bartleby in Manhattan
Pits And Boots Excavation Of Medieval And Post Medieval Backlands Under The Bon Accord Centre Aberdeen
DOWNLOAD
Author : Michael Roy
language : en
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2021-05-13
Pits And Boots Excavation Of Medieval And Post Medieval Backlands Under The Bon Accord Centre Aberdeen written by Michael Roy and has been published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-13 with Social Science categories.
Excavations in 2007-8, ahead of an extension to the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen, uncovered backlands that would have formed part of the industrial quarter of the medieval town. The excavation charts the changing nature of the area, from an industrial zone in the medieval period, to horticultural and domestic spaces in post-medieval times.
Backlands A Novel
DOWNLOAD
Author : Victoria Shorr
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2015-05-11
Backlands A Novel written by Victoria Shorr and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-11 with Fiction categories.
In this Bonnie and Clyde story of love and betrayal, a band of outlaws fight for control of the brutal Brazilian outback. Set in the sparse frontier settlements of northeastern Brazil—a dry, forbidding, and wild region the size of Texas, known locally as the Sertão—Backlands tells the true story of a group of nomadic outlaws who reigned over the area from about 1922 until 1938. Taking from the rich, admired—and feared—by the poor, they were led by the famously charismatic bandit Lampião. The gang maintained their influence by fighting off all the police and soldiers the region could muster. A one-eyed goat rancher who first set out to avenge his father's murder in a lawless land, Lampião proved to be too good a leader, fighter, and strategist to ever return home again. By 1925 he commanded the biggest gang of outlaws in Brazil. Known to this day as a "prince," Lampião had everything: brains, money, power, charisma, and luck. Everything but love, until he met Maria Bonita. "You teach me to make lace, and I'll teach you to make love"—this was the song the bandits marched to, across the vast open reaches of their starkly beautiful backlands, and it was Maria Bonita who made it come true. She was stuck in a loveless marriage when she met Lampião, but she rode off with him, becoming "Queen of the Bandits." Together the couple—still celebrated folk heroes—would become the country's most wanted figures, protecting their extraordinary freedom through cunning. Victoria Shorr's stunning literary debut tells Maria's story, her narrative of the intense freedoms, terrors, and sorrows of this chosen life, the end of which is clear to her all along. With the federal government in Rio mobilizing against the bandits, Backlands describes the epic final days of Lampião’s "fatal month," July on the River of Disorder, as the gang struggles to summon their good star to save them one more time.
The Meaning Of Liberalism In Brazil
DOWNLOAD
Author : Milton Tosto
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2005
The Meaning Of Liberalism In Brazil written by Milton Tosto and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
The Meaning of Liberalism in Brazil explores the consequences of globalization in emerging-market economies using Brazil as a case study. This well-researched and thought provoking book elaborates a new interpretation of Brazilian society by showing the relationship between political thought and economics, as well as how the two disciplines can interact, working together to shape a nation. Milton Tosto Jr. carefully traces the meaning of liberalism throughout Brazilian history, explaining liberalism's birth and collapse, and ultimately offers reasons why the new liberal institutions of Brazil have an excellent chance of prospering. Anyone interested in economics, political theory, or Latin American studies will find this unique and insightful volume helpful.
The Devil To Pay In The Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : João Guimarães Rosa
language : en
Publisher: New York : Knopf
Release Date : 1963
The Devil To Pay In The Backlands written by João Guimarães Rosa and has been published by New York : Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Brazilian fiction categories.
A NOVEL OF NORTHERN BRAZIL BY ONE OF THE LEADING BRAZILIAN AUTHORS.
Rebellion In The Backlands Os Sert Es
DOWNLOAD
Author : Euclides da Cunha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Rebellion In The Backlands Os Sert Es written by Euclides da Cunha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Brazil categories.
Genius In The Backlands
DOWNLOAD
Author : Selden Rodman
language : en
Publisher: Old Greenwich, Conn. : Devin-Adair Company
Release Date : 1977
Genius In The Backlands written by Selden Rodman and has been published by Old Greenwich, Conn. : Devin-Adair Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Art categories.
Stepping Out Of The Herd
DOWNLOAD
Author : Seelall Persaud
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2022-03-18
Stepping Out Of The Herd written by Seelall Persaud and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Stepping Out of the Herd is the author’s first-hand account about policing in the South American country during the 1980s until the 2000s. Seelall Persaud details his life and times growing up in a rural farming community in the former British colony and also plunges the reader into a deep well of information and analysis about the country’s historical, cultural, and political landscape. The book serves as a primer for readers to gain insight into the complexities of the country, its people, and its system of policing. From training in the jungles and eating snake, working his way up from the frontlines of the Guyana Police Force through professional development and operational exposure locally and in international settings such as with the FBI National Academy and the Scottish Police College, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and rising to the highest echelon in the police profession, the author’s insider knowledge is evident. Stepping Out of the Herd is an exposition that reveals a unique perspective on the continuum of law enforcement in Guyana. The author used his research and experiences to define whose interests the police force was designed to serve, whose it actually served at varying periods of its history and what impact it had on the society. In so doing, he explained the factors that created the acute ethnic imbalance in the organization and those that sustained it on to present. In the final chapter, he offers meaningful recommendations for change.