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1808: The Flight of the Emperor
In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs—imprisoned, exiled, executed—Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his deranged mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Until then, no European monarch had ever set foot in the Americas. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit ships. Lice infested some of the vessels, and noble women had to shave their hair and grease their bald heads with antiseptic sulfur. Vermin infested the food, and bacteria contami...
História do Brasil - Livro I - A Chegada Dos Portugueses Ao Brasil A Chegada A Nova Terra
Explora a chegada dos portugueses ao Brasil em 1500, liderados por Pedro Álvares Cabral, e os primeiros momentos de descoberta e exploração da nova terra.
Brazil and Canada
This book provides a synthesis of the relationship between Brazil and Canada, or what comprises Canada today, with the objective of uncovering a neglected history. This book covers from the first known exchange of migrants between the two countries in 1828 to 1979 when a political openness in the Brazilian military dictatorship gave rise to a new chapter in the two countries’ relationship. As the first synthetic treatment of this relationship, this book not only aims to build on the limited historiography that exists, but also to open up new interpretive channels that can be further explored in the future. Recommended for scholars of Latin American studies, history, and international relations.
Lula of Brazil
Describes Lula's childhood hardships in an impoverished family, his days as a trade unionist, and the strike movement that brought down Brazil's military dictatorship. This book chronicles Lula's campaigns for the presidency of Brazil, his first term in office beginning in 2002, a corruption scandal,and his reelection in 2006.
Electra
Em uma saga épica repleta de traição, coragem e luta, três mulheres icônicas vão redefinir a história de Troia. A Casa de Atreu carrega uma terrível maldição: uma linhagem marcada por gerações de violência e vingança implacáveis. Esta é a história de três mulheres cujos destinos estão entrelaçados, desafiando os caprichos dos homens e a imprevisibilidade dos deuses. Clitemnestra, a irmã Esposa de Agamêmnon e irmã de Helena, Clitemnestra tenta desesperadamente evitar a maldição que assola sua família. Mas tudo desmorona quando Helena é raptada por Páris e levada para Troia. Cassandra, a profetisa Princesa de Troia, Cassandra é amaldiçoada pelo deus Apolo: ela pode prever o futuro, mas ninguém acredita em suas profecias. Com o coração pesado, ela vê o destino de sua cidade se aproximar e nada pode fazer para impedir sua destruição. Electra, a filha Filha mais nova de Clitemnestra e Agamêmnon, Electra cresce em meio ao derramamento de sangue e às tragédias de sua família. Ela deseja desesperadamente escapar dessa espiral de violência, mas é possível romper esse ciclo ou sua vida está destinada ao mesmo destino cruel?
Understanding Brazil for Foreigners
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/UBrazilF/ Google+ page: http://plus.google.com/111085952888311459023/ This book is aimed to provide foreigners with a head start to understand Brazil and Brazilians. It’s not a “behavioral” book, nor an encyclopedia entry (that you would find in Wikipedia) or an atlas section. It’s a compilation of the information that you would likely want to know if moving to Brazil, making business or just before a tourism trip. When foreigners think about Brazil, usually what comes to mind is one or more of the following: Rio de Janeiro, Samba, Carnival parades, Christ the Redeemer, beaches, Bossa Nova and the Girl of Ipanema, huge forests, women in bikinis,...
The Ripple Effect
In The Ripple Effect: Gender and Race in Brazilian Culture and Literature, Barbosa adopts a comparative, multilayered, and interdisciplinary line of research to examine social values and cultural mores from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. By analyzing the historical, cultural, religious, and interactive space of Brazil’s national identity, The Ripple Effect surveys expressive cultures and literary manifestations. It uses the martial art-dance-ritual capoeira as a lynchpin to disclose historical ambiguities and the negotiation of cultural and literary boundaries within the context of the ideological construct of a mestizo nation. The book also examines laws govern...
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A Warrior’s Life: A Biography of Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho is a worldwide phenomenon. At a time when he is coming up to the fantastic achievement of 100 million copies sold worldwide across all his books, his fans will be delighted with the first ever official biography of Paulo, an in-depth look at his life and work, and what makes him the much-loved author he is today.
Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
The diaspora of Portuguese Jews and New Christians, known as Gente da Nação (People of the Nation), is considered the largest European diaspora of the early modern period. Portuguese Jews not only founded the first congregations and synagogues in Brazil (Recife and Olinda), but when they left Brazil they played an imperative role in establishing the first Jewish communities in Suriname, throughout the Caribbean, and in North America. Portuguese Jews and New Christians and their descendants were deeply involved in the colonial enterprise in Brazil. They were among the New World’s first sugarcane-industry experts, skilled laborers, merchants, rabbis, calligraphists, playwrights, poets, writers, pharmacists, medical doctors, real estate brokers, and geographers—a fact that remains largely unknown in most public and academic spheres. Drawing on nearly twenty thousand digitized dossiers of the Portuguese Inquisition, this volume offers a comprehensive, critical overview informed by both relatively inaccessible secondary sources and a significant body of primary sources.
