Cruzeiro Do Sul: A History of Brazil's Half-Millennium, Vol. 2
Subtitle: O Povo (the People) 19th & 20th Centuries
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: July 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9781420819465
Subjects: American history; History; History - General History; History: World; South America; Latin America - South America; History / South America
First sentence: Eastertide, 1810 - As James Madison, the fourth U.S. president, was settling in for a second expected-to-be-peaceful year in the President's House, fundamental change had begun to show its unfamiliar face south beyond the equatorial doldrums, that notorious calm, the bane of sailors, disturbing three-centuries-long dual cloying and infernal colonial dreams.