Slavery in Brazil, Paperback - Herbert S. Klein

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

Reducere. This survey is a synthesis of the economic, social, cultural, and political history of the Atlantic slave trade, providing the general reader with ...

DescriptionFeeding the World chronicles the rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse during the second half of the twentieth century. Trac...

A Concise History of Bolivia - Herbert S. Klein

An ultimate travel book, combining exquisite writing on food with history, culture and politics, to create an intelligent and enthralling portrait ...

Reducere. If you think that UFOs are not real or that only crazy people believe in aliens, think again. This story was originally reported in the Wall Street...

Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian soci...

This book amounts to a series of stories about my experience of living and working in Brazil over a period of thirty-three years. The aim of the bo...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Suely RolnikTranslator: Brian HolmesNumber of pages: 496Collection: Semiotext(e) / Foreign AgentsPublication dat...

Reducere. DescriptionThe reader is given a concept of the life and times when Hippocrates lived. The professions and trades during Hippocrates time are descr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book opens up contemporary and novel practices of Brazil's democracy for examination, including responses to global food security, the purchas...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this intimate volume the long-lost voices of Wisconsin Oneida men and women speak of all aspects of life: growing up, work and econom...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democr...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured b...

Reducere. This guide will help you identify-quickly and easily-the birds you are most likely to see. It tells you: What to look forWhere and when to lookHow ...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Massimo SciarrettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 2...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

Reducere. Herbert S. Schell provides a picture of South Dakota's political, economic, social, and environmental history, identifying the local, regional, nat...

Reducere. In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaig...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Graham Denyer WillisIllustration(s): 7 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 230Publication ...

Reducere. Stiinta s-a nascut in Occident? - Jacques Demorgon, Etienne Klein

Jacques Demorgon Etienne Klein 978-606-9088-48-7

Reducere. Brazil is the fifth largest country in the world and is one of the planet's richest places for bird diversity, especially when it comes to the numb...

Stiinta s-a nascut in Occident? Lumea apartine celor care "se nasc" occidentali (?). Un studiu asupra operei lui David Cosandey O intrebare fundame...

This volume examines the Enlightenment-era textualization of the Black African in European thought. Andrew S. Curran rewrites the history of blackn...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Marilia DuqueIllustration(s): 61 Illustrations, colorCollection: Ageing with SmartphonesPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...