Brazil A Biography
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Brazil A Biography
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Author : Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2018-07-26
Brazil A Biography written by Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-26 with History categories.
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders.
Brazil
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Author : Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
language : en
Publisher: Allen Lane
Release Date : 2018
Brazil written by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and has been published by Allen Lane this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Brazil categories.
Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity. Brazil - A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders.
Viscount Maua And The Empire Of Brazil
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Author : Anyda Marchant
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2023-04-28
Viscount Maua And The Empire Of Brazil written by Anyda Marchant and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1965.
Vargas Of Brazil
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Author : John W. F. Dulles
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Vargas Of Brazil written by John W. F. Dulles and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954 was a highly contradictory and controversial personality. Getúlio Vargas, from the pampas of the southern frontier state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the dictator who ruled without ever forgetting the lower classes. Vargas was a consummate artist at politics. He climbed the political ladder through seats in the state and national legislatures to the post of federal Finance Minister and to the governorship of Rio Grande do Sul. His career then took him to the National Palace as Provisional President and as Constitutional President, and later as the dictator of his "New State." After his deposition in 1945 and a period of semiretirement, his continuing widespread popularity resulted in his successful come-back campaign in 1950 for the Presidency on the Labor Party ticket. Vargas' contributions to Brazilian political and economic life were many and important. Taking advantage of the power which his political magic provided him, he brought Brazil from a loose confederacy of semifeudal states to a strongly centralized nation. He was a great eclectic, welding into his social, political, and economic policies what he found good in various programs. He was also a great opportunist in the sense that he adroitly took advantage of conditions and circumstances to effect his ends. He was intimately related to the revolutionary changes in Brazilian life after 1930. Vargas, "Father of the Brazilians," attributed achievements such as these to power in his own hands. His foes, however, still feared the political wizard, and they cheered the military when it deposed him. After his return, "on the arms of the people," Vargas saw that the armed forces were determined to repeat history, and in 1954 he chose another path—suicide. All of these exciting events are related in John W. F. Dulles's Vargas of Brazil: A Political Biography. Despite its emphasis on Vargas the politician and statesman, the reader comes to know Vargas the man. For this portrait of Vargas and of Brazil the author has drawn much material from State Department papers in the National Archives and from other public sources, and from interviews with numerous persons who were participants in the events he describes or observers of them. The result is an interesting, revealing, valid account of an important people. Many illustrations supplement the text.
Every Inch A King
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Author : Sergio Correa da Costa
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-01
Every Inch A King written by Sergio Correa da Costa and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-01 with Travel categories.
This is the biography of one of the most colourful and dashing young monarchs who ever lived. His shortcomings—impulsiveness, quick temper, weakness for women—were offset by his truly generous nature. He became a surprising liberal, the only reigning monarch to defy and outwit Metternich, “the evil genius of the reaction,” and he was at one time offered the thrones of Spain and Greece. With a mad grandmother, a mother whose lovers and political intrigues were a court scandal, and a father who had little time to spare for his upbringing, Dom Pedro grew up in a dislocated family who had fled to the Portuguese colony of Brazil just before Napoleon’s armies overran the mother country. Formally uneducated, but brilliantly informed and acute, he separated the colony from Portugal and moulded it into a new nation, only to run counter to the still rising revolutionary tide and to abdicate his throne. Later he was to lead liberal-republican armies into Portugal itself and to secure the throne for his daughter, Maria da Gloria. This exciting story is told as only an artist in words could tell it, with an accuracy of detail and a wealth of colour and emotion that give the book a unique place among recent biographies. Throughout its pages, Brazilian history is related against a larger background in which England, Austria, Greece, Russia, the United States and Spain played important roles. Samuel Putnam, noted for his brilliant English version of Don Quixote, has translated the book into English.
From Community To Metropolis
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Author : Richard McGee Morse
language : en
Publisher: Octagon Press, Limited
Release Date : 1974
From Community To Metropolis written by Richard McGee Morse and has been published by Octagon Press, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with History categories.
Citizen Emperor
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Author : Roderick J. Barman
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Citizen Emperor written by Roderick J. Barman and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In the history of post-colonial Latin America no person has held power so firmly and for so long as did Pedro II as emperor of Brazil. This is the first full-length biography in 60 years, and the first in any language to make close use of Pedro II's diaries and family papers.
Benedita Da Silva
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Author : Benedita da Silva
language : en
Publisher: Food First Books
Release Date : 1997
Benedita Da Silva written by Benedita da Silva and has been published by Food First Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A champion of the poor and advocate for women, Afro-Brazilian Senator Benedita de Silva shares the sometimes heart wrenching, always inspiring story of her life. Illustrations & photos.
Apostle Of Brazil
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Author : Helen G. Dominian
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Apostle Of Brazil written by Helen G. Dominian and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Brazil categories.
Dom Pedro The Magnanimous Second Emperor Of Brazil
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Author : Mary Wilhelmine Williams
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
Dom Pedro The Magnanimous Second Emperor Of Brazil written by Mary Wilhelmine Williams and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with History categories.
First published in 1967