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Chica Da Silva - A Brazilian Slave Of The Eighteenth Century

by Junia Ferreira (Professor) Furtado e Júnia Ferreira Furtado

37,85€ + 10% CARD

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 A fascinating study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Her story reveals the world she inhabited, and the myths that were later created around her. She came to symbolise both racial democracy, and the stereotypes attributed to the Brazilian black or mulatta female.
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Becoming Brazilians - Race And National Identity In Twentieth-Century Brazil

by Marshall C. Eakin

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiÃ§agem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
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Admirable Adventures And Strange Fortunes Of Master Anthony Knivet - An English Pirate In Sixteenth-Century Brazil

by Anthony Knivet

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Anthony Knivet's Admirable Adventures is the earliest detailed description of Brazil written by an Englishman. His account gives unique firsthand glimpse into the land and people of early colonial Brazil, including descriptions of native tribes and local habits given for the first time.
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Divining Slavery And Freedom - The Story Of Domingos Sodré, An African Priest In Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by João José Reis

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 Domingos SodrÃ©, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses SodrÃ©'s 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society.
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Environmental History Of Latin America

by Shawn William Miller

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period beginning with Amerindian civilizations and concluding with the region's present urban agglomerations, the work argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development.
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Women Of Colonial Latin America

by Susan Migden Socolow

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.
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Chica Da Silva - A Brazilian Slave Of The Eighteenth Century

by Júnia Ferreira Furtado

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 A fascinating study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Her story reveals the world she inhabited, and the myths that were later created around her. She came to symbolise both racial democracy, and the stereotypes attributed to the Brazilian black or mulatta female.
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Medicine And Public Health In Latin America - A History

by Marcos Cueto e Steven Palmer

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 This book serves as a concise and synthetic history of medicine and health in Latin America from 1492 to the present, summarizing the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and placing it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health.
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Spanish Atlantic World In The Eighteenth Century - War And The Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796

by Allan J. Kuethe e Kenneth J. Andrien

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 This book covers the evolution of royal policy in Spanish America as eighteenth-century Spain modernized its empire and transformed itself into a power of the first order. Tracing the interplay between war and reform, the analysis confronts the diverse realities of the Spanish Atlantic world, which stretched from the northern Mexican borderlands to Argentina and Chile.
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Becoming Brazilians - Race And National Identity In Twentieth-Century Brazil

by Marshall C. Eakin

38,43€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiÃ§agem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
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Becoming Brazilians - Race And National Identity In Twentieth-Century Brazil

by Marshall C. (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Eakin

39,20€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiÃ§agem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
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Becoming Brazilians - Race And National Identity In Twentieth-Century Brazil

by Marshall C. (Vanderbilt University, Tennessee) Eakin

140,60€ + 10% CARD

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 This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiÃ§agem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
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Caetana Says No - Women''S Stories From A Brazilian Slave Society

by Sandra Lauderdale Graham

29,15€ + 10% CARD

 Two nineteenth-century Brazilian women struggle to lead a life on their own terms.
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Admirable Adventures And Strange Fortunes Of Master Anthony Knivet - An English Pirate In Sixteenth-Century Brazil

by Anthony Knivet

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 Anthony Knivet's Admirable Adventures is the earliest detailed description of Brazil written by an Englishman. His account gives unique firsthand glimpse into the land and people of early colonial Brazil, including descriptions of native tribes and local habits given for the first time.
ENGLISH

Divining Slavery And Freedom - The Story Of Domingos Sodré, An African Priest In Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by João José Reis

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 Domingos SodrÃ©, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses SodrÃ©'s 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society.
ENGLISH

The Admirable Adventures And Strange Fortunes Of Master Anthony Knivet - An English Pirate In Sixteenth-Century Brazil

by Anthony Knivet

33,80€ + 10% CARD

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 Anthony Knivet's Admirable Adventures is the earliest detailed description of Brazil written by an Englishman. His account gives unique firsthand glimpse into the land and people of early colonial Brazil, including descriptions of native tribes and local habits given for the first time.
ENGLISH

The Admirable Adventures And Strange Fortunes Of Master Anthony Knivet - An English Pirate In Sixteenth-Century Brazil

by Anthony Knivet

102,73€ + 10% CARD

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 Anthony Knivet's Admirable Adventures is the earliest detailed description of Brazil written by an Englishman. His account gives unique firsthand glimpse into the land and people of early colonial Brazil, including descriptions of native tribes and local habits given for the first time.
ENGLISH

Women Of Colonial Latin America

by Susan Migden Socolow

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 In this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book - incorporating new topics and illustrative cases that significantly expand topics addressed in the first edition; updating historiography; and adding new material on poor, rural, indigenous and slave women.
ENGLISH

Environmental History Of Latin America

by Shawn William Miller

33,13€ + 10% CARD

 A narration of the mutually mortal historical contest between humans and nature in Latin America. Covering a period beginning with Amerindian civilizations and concluding with the region's present urban agglomerations, the work argues that tropical nature played a central role in shaping the region's historical development.
ENGLISH

Medicine And Public Health In Latin America - A History

by Marcos Cueto e Steven Palmer

34,45€ + 10% CARD

 This book serves as a concise and synthetic history of medicine and health in Latin America from 1492 to the present, summarizing the social history of medicine, medical education, and public health in Latin America and placing it in dialogue with the international historiographical currents in medicine and health.
ENGLISH

Divining Slavery And Freedom - The Story Of Domingos Sodre, An African Priest In Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Joao Jose (Universidade Federal Da Bahia, Brazil) Reis

37,85€ + 10% CARD

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 Domingos SodrÃ©, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses SodrÃ©'s 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society.
ENGLISH

Divining Slavery And Freedom - The Story Of Domingos Sodre, An African Priest In Nineteenth-Century Brazil

by Joao Jose (Universidade Federal Da Bahia, Brazil) Reis

116,26€ + 10% CARD

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 Domingos SodrÃ©, an African diviner enslaved in Brazil, managed to obtain his freedom and become a slave owner himself. The book uses SodrÃ©'s 1862 arrest on suspicion of witchcraft as a catalyst for discussing African religion and its place in Brazil's slave society.
ENGLISH

Chica Da Silva - A Brazilian Slave Of The Eighteenth Century

by Júnia Ferreira Furtado

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 A fascinating study of Chica da Silva, a freed woman of color in a Brazilian town. Her story reveals the world she inhabited, and the myths that were later created around her. She came to symbolise both racial democracy, and the stereotypes attributed to the Brazilian black or mulatta female.
ENGLISH

Spanish Atlantic World In The Eighteenth Century - War And The Bourbon Reforms, 1713-1796

by Allan J. Kuethe e Kenneth J. Andrien

37,10€ + 10% CARD

 This book covers the evolution of royal policy in Spanish America as eighteenth-century Spain modernized its empire and transformed itself into a power of the first order. Tracing the interplay between war and reform, the analysis confronts the diverse realities of the Spanish Atlantic world, which stretched from the northern Mexican borderlands to Argentina and Chile.
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