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  • Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil's Contemporary Economic and Political Development

    Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    During the past decade, the potential offered by Brazil's size, resources, and location has begun to be realized. There are, however, a number of international and domestic obstacles to the country's continued development, as indicated by its extreme inflation rate and its foreign indebtedness. There are also serious questions about the social and political results of the Brazilian approach to ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Black Beans and Diamonds

    Brazil in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop

    Translated by Neil K. Besner ...
    by Regina Przybycien ...
    Since its publication in Portuguese in 2015, Regina Przybycien’s Black Beans and Diamonds has become a foundational study of the critical and highly productive years from 1951 to 1974 during which the American poet Elizabeth Bishop lived and worked in Brazil.Now available in English for the first time, the book provides Bishop scholars and her steadily growing audience of general readers a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Global Change and Regional Impacts

    Water Availability and Vulnerability of Ecosystems and Society in the Semiarid Northeast of Brazil

    Edited by Jose C. de Araujo, Maarten Krol, Thomas Gaiser, Horst Frischkorn ...
    Global climatic change will most likely affect natural resources and human living conditions in semiarid regions. This volume presents disciplinary as well as integrative methods to assess these impacts considering the interactions between climate variability and change, water availability, land-use systems, and quality of life. Taking the semiarid northeastern area of Brazil as an example, a wide ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

  • The Political System of Brazil

    Edited by Dana de la Fontaine, Thomas Stehnken ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume presents in-depth insights into the polity, politics and policies of the Brazilian political system. It reassesses the processes of change since the country's return to democracy in the 1980s, in the light of autocratic societal structures and suboptimal institutional design, on the one hand, and the political and economic achievements observed, on the other. In their contributions, ... Read more

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  • The South American Republics (Vol. 1&2) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. The History of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama (Complete Edition)

    by Thomas Cleland Dawson, Greta Somerwick ...
    In The South American Republics, Volumes I–II, Thomas Cleland Dawson offers a sweeping historical survey of the continent from conquest and colonial administration to independence, constitutional experimentation, civil conflict, and the emergence of modern republics. Written in the lucid, documentary style of early twentieth-century diplomatic history, the work combines political narrative, ... Read more

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  • The South American Republics (Vol. 1&2)

    Enriched edition. The History of Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama (Complete Edition)

    by Thomas Cleland Dawson, Paige Gibson ...
    In "The South American Republics (Vol. 1&2)," Thomas Cleland Dawson delivers an exhaustive examination of the political, social, and economic landscapes of South America during the early 20th century. Employing a meticulous historical narrative interspersed with vivid descriptions, Dawson paints a comprehensive portrait of the region's diverse nations, their colonial legacies, and the tumultuous ... Read more

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  • The Boy Travellers in South America

    Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentine Republic, and Chili

    by Thomas Wallace Knox ...
    Series series Children's & Family
    Complete and unabridged. Two American boys travel from Panama down the Andes to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, and everything from a llama to the rubber trade is explained on the way. Knox wrote the Boy Travellers series from his own journeys as a correspondent. The South American volume is unusually good on the Amazon and on what the rubber boom was doing to the people upriver. Its 355 original ... Read more

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  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    by Fernando Teixeira da Silva, Alexandre Fortes, Thomas D. Rogers, Gillian McGillivray, Larissa Rosa Corrêa, Jerry Dávila, Glaucia Cristina Candian Fraccaro0, Michael M. Hall1, Rebecca Herman2, Barbara Weinstein3 ...
    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • State And Society In Brazil

    Continuity And Change

    by John D Wirth, Edson De Oliveria Nunes, Thomas Bogenschild ...
    This volume grew out of a conference series sponsored jointly by the Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for Latin American Studies and the Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ). Entitled "Opportunities and Constraints in Peripheral Industrial Society: The Case of Brazil," the first conference was held in Nova Friburgo in July 1983 and was followed up by another at Berkeley in ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • The Church in Brazil

    The Politics of Religion

    by Thomas C. Bruneau ...
    Series series LLILAS Latin American Monograph Series
    In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point dramatized by the rapid growth of other religious movements in Brazil—particularly Protestant ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The South American Republics : History of Brazil

    by Thomas C. Dawson ...
    This book presents the History of Brazil, from the discovery to the establishment of the Republic.“On the 9th of March, 1500, Pedro Alvarez Cabral, a Portuguese nobleman of illustrious birth, but not yet distinguished by any notable feats in war or seamanship, sailed from Lisbon for the East Indies. This expedition was sent out to continue the work begun by Vasco da Gama in the first all-sea ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Brazil’s International Ethanol Strategy

    Lula’s Quest for a Global Biofuels Market

    by Thomas Fröhlich ...
    Series series Anthem Brazilian Studies
    Under the governments of Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff, Brazil aimed at creating a global market for ethanol as a green transport fuel, and ethanol diplomacy became a signature component of Brazil’s international insertion at the time. This study examines Brazil’s international ethanol strategy and creates a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and practical approaches that Brazil ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD