The Japanese Community in Brazil, 1908-1940
Subtitle: Between Samurai and Carnival
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 12, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780333636862
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Ethnography; Immigration & emigration; 20th century; History; Sociology; History: World; ASIA; Brazil; Anthropology - Cultural; Emigration & Immigration; Latin America - General; History-Latin America - General; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science-Emigration & Immigration; Asia - Japan; Ethnic relations; Japanese
First sentence: The modern era of migration in unprecedented numbers and over unprecedented distances is directly linked to the spread of industrial capitalism.