The Brazil Of To Day

Author : John J. Crocitti
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313346739
Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil Today [2 volumes] written by John J. Crocitti and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-12-12 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For students, business people, government officials, artists, and tourists—in short, anyone traveling to or wishing to know more about contemporary Brazil—this is an essential resource. The two-volume Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic is an introductory work intended for those in search of basic information about Brazilian institutions, businesses, social issues, and culture. At the same time, it is a work that reflects the nation's geographic, demographic, economic, and cultural diversity. The wide-reaching encyclopedia offers an entry for each Brazilian state with information about the land, climate, economy, and culture. It also offers extensive coverage of the country's political parties and leaders, its governmental and non-governmental organizations, and the environmental issues and social problems that shape Brazilian politics today. In addition, the work pays considerable attention to the economy and business through entries on industry, agriculture, commerce, banking, and economic policies. Finally, there are entries that illuminate various aspects of Brazil's culture, including the nation's social movements, religion, education, music, cuisine, and literature, as well as personalities from sports and entertainment.

Author : Arthur Dias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazil of To-day written by Arthur Dias and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Larry Rohter
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230120733
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil on the Rise written by Larry Rohter and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journalist on Brazil, intimately portrays a country of contradictions, a country of passion and above all a country of immense power.

Author : Colin M. MacLachlan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780842051231
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Modern Brazil written by Colin M. MacLachlan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over time, Brazil has evolved into a well-defined nation with a strong sense of identity. From the natural beauty of the Amazon River to the exciting resort city of Rio de Janeiro, from soccer champion Pele to classical musician Villa Lobos, Brazil is known as a distinctive, diverse country. It is recognized worldwide for its World Cup soccer team, samba music, dancing, and celebrations of Carnival. This book provides a well-rounded, brief history of Brazil that uniquely focuses on both the politics and culture of the republic. Colin MacLachlan uses a political narrative to frame the evolution of national culture and the formation of national identity. He evaluates Brazilian myths, stereotypes, and icons such as soccer and dancing as part of the historical analysis. Brazil's history is presented from its colonial roots to the present, showing how the country developed its economic and social base, then struggled to modernize and secure a respected world role. Key issues are examined: immigration, slavery and race, territorial expansion, the military, and technology and industrialization. The integration of cultural material enriches the text. It provides handy points for classroom discussion and will help students remember particular aspects Brazil's history. The book includes fascinating side-bars on various aspects of Brazilian culture, including Copacabana Beach and the rain forests. A History of Modern Brazil will inform and entertain students in courses on Brazil and modern Latin America.

Author : Dave Zirin
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608464334
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil's Dance with the Devil written by Dave Zirin and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the Boston Globe’s Best Sports Books of the Year: “Incisive, heartbreaking, important and even funny” (Jeremy Schaap, New York Times–bestselling author of Cinderella Man). The people of Brazil celebrated when it was announced that they were hosting the World Cup—the world’s most-viewed athletic tournament—in 2014 and the 2016 Summer Olympics. But as the events were approaching, ordinary Brazilians were holding the country’s biggest protest marches in decades. Sports journalist Dave Zirin traveled to Brazil to find out why. In a rollicking read that travels from the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to the fabled Maracanã Stadium to the halls of power in Washington, DC, Zirin examines Brazilians’ objections to the corruption of the games they love; the toll such events take on impoverished citizens; and how taking to the streets opened up an international conversation on the culture, economics, and politics of sports. “Millions will enjoy the World Cup and Olympics, but Zirin justly reminds readers of the real human costs beyond the spectacle.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : John Updike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781627159258
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by John Updike and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfredo Saad-Filho
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745336756
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil written by Alfredo Saad-Filho and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political analysis of the paradox of modern-day Brazil, charting the political transition from military rule to democracy, and to neoliberalism.

Author : Sérgio Buarque de Holanda
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268077649
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roots of Brazil written by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda. Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural influences that forged twentieth-century Brazil, especially those of the Portuguese, the Spanish, other European colonists, Native Americans, and Africans. Buarque de Holanda argues that all of these originary influences were transformed into a unique Brazilian culture and society—a "transition zone." The book presents an understanding of why and how European culture flourished in a large, tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. Buarque de Holanda uses Max Weber’s typological criteria to establish pairs of "ideal types" as a means of stressing particular characteristics of Brazilians, while also trying to understand and explain the local historical process. Along with other early twentieth-century works such as The Masters and the Slaves by Gilberto Freyre and The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil by Caio Prado Júnior, Roots of Brazil set the parameters of Brazilian historiography for a generation and continues to offer keys to understanding the complex history of Brazil. Roots of Brazil has been published in Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, German, and French. This long-awaited English translation will interest students and scholars of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Latin American history, culture, literature, and postcolonial studies.

Author : Nevin Otto Winter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil and Her People of To-day written by Nevin Otto Winter and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Dias
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331888017
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Brazil of To-Day written by Arthur Dias and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Brazil of to-Day: A Book of Commercial, Political and Geographical Information on Brazil, Impressions of Voyage, Descriptive and Picturesque Date About the Principal Cities, Prominent Men and Leading Events of Our Days With Illustrations and Statistics This great country, already one of the largest in the world when it made its appearance as an independent nation at the beginning of the last century, has since added to its map several regions, both at the North and South, not by means of military conquests, but through the decisions of international judges. At the beginning of this century there were only four flags unfurling their colors over communities larger than the Brazilian Republic and they were: England, which is the largest empire of the world, with its colonies and possessions all over; Russia, with its Asiatic annexations; the immense China which we may compare with a well, as it seems to grow at the proportion other nations take away from it some territory; and the United States with its four million of square miles much enlarged by the victories won in the war against Spain. Of all these great countries, however, none has territorial homogeneity, and what is still more important, none has the homogeneity of its race as Brazil has. That enormous English empire is by itself a map of peoples without any other ties but its powerful instruments of administration, so that, what we admire it for, is not its tendency towards desaggregation nearly exposing itself by the independence of the Australian federation, but for its aggremiation, as it exists to-day, conglomerating artificially ethnic dispositions, habits and customs, languages and social inclinations of impossible assimilation. The massive Russia is an aggravation of the English heterogeneity we referred to: is like the English empire but more crowded with antagonistic races-the Slavonic, Polish, Laplanders, Finlanders, Estonians, Armenians, Siberians, Parminiens and Georgians, Tartars and Tehoudians, in short, une monstrueuse el discordante agglomeration de peuples, as a certain geographer put it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.