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Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Gilberto Freyre was one of the greatest Brazilian intellectuals, author of classics such as "Casa Grande & Senzala". The interviews gathered here reveal aspects of the complexity of his thought: innocent a...

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986.

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Excerpt from Dona Sinhá E O Filho Padre: SeminovelaPreferindo dedicar a sua vida principalmente activi dade de escritor, por considerar esta a sua vocação máxima e temer o que chama a rotina pedagógica, Gil berto Freyre tem recusado cátedras em universidades do seu pais e do estrangeiro. Assim, deixou, em 1942, de aceitar a cátedra de Filosofia Social, na Universidade de Yale, em 1943, a de Sociologia, na Universidade do Brasil, em 1943, a de ...

Excerpt from Dona Sinhá E O Filho Padre: SeminovelaPreferindo dedicar a sua vida principalmente activi dade de escritor, por considerar esta a sua vocação máxima e temer o que chama a rotina pedagógica, Gil berto Freyre tem recusado cátedras em universidades do seu pais e do estrangeiro. Assim, deixou, em 1942, de aceitar a cátedra de Filosofia Social, na Universidade de Yale, em 1943, a de Sociologia, na Universidade do Brasil, em 1943, a de ...

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Studies the 'gentle, velvet revolution' produced by a multitude of British manufactures, ideas and habits invading Brazil, from trams, gas lamps, railways, sewers and glass windows, to beer, hats, bread, butter, afternoon tea, the use of knives and forks and the habit of daily shaving.

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BRAZIL- AN INTERPRETATION by GILBERTO FREYRE. Contents include: PREFACE v i. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND OF BRAZILIAN HISTORY i ii. FRONTIER AND PLANTATION IN BRAZIL 35 in. BRAZILIAN UNITY AND BRAZILIAN REGIONAL DIVERSITY 66 iv. ETHNIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN MODERN BRAZIL 91 v. BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY AS CONDI TIONED BY BRAZIL'S ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION 123 vi. THE MODERN LITERATURE OF BRAZIL: ITS RELATION TO BRAZILIAN SOCIA...

A series of lectures on the ethnic and social fusion that makes Brazil the country it is today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.