The human tradition in modern Brazil
By: edited by Peter M. Beattie.
Contributors: Beattie, Peter M., 1963-
Series: The Human tradition around the world ;; no. 7
Publisher: SR Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
Subjects: Brazil -- History -- 1763-1821 -- Biography.; Brazil -- History -- 1822- -- Biography.; Brazil -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The independence and early imperial generations (1800-1869). Daniel Gomes de Freitas : liberal conspiracy in the early national period / Hendrik Kraay; title: Agostinho José Pereira : the divine teacher / Marcus J.M. de Carvalho; title: The generations of the Late Empire (1870-1889) and the Old Republic, (1889-1930); title: Juca Rosa : spiritual leader and healer / Gabriela dos Reis Sampaio; title: Jacobina Maurer : German-Brazilian mystic / Roger A. Kittleson; title: Adolfo Ferreira Caminha : navy officer, ardent republican, and naturalist novelist / Peter M. Beattie; title: Cándido Mariano da Silva Rondon : one man's search for the Brazilian nation / Todd A. Diacon; title: The Populist-Era generations (1930-1959); title: Geraldo Pereira : samba composer and grifter / Bryan McCann; title: Domingos da Guia : a mestizo hero on and off the soccer field / Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira; title: Norma Fraga : race, class, education, and the Estado Novo / Jerry Dávila; title: Vicente Racioppi : the local preservationist and the national state / Daryle Williams; title: The generations of authoritarian military rule and neoliberalism : (1960 to the twenty-first century); title: J'fre Corrêa Netto : the Fidel Castro of Brazil / Cliff Welch; title: Carolina Maria de Jesus : from ragpicking to best-selling author and back again / Robert M. Levine; title: Dom Hélder Câmara : the father of the church of the poor / Kenneth P. Serbin; title: Madame Sata (Satan) : the Black "Queen" of Rio's bohemia / James N. Green; title: Mario Juruna : Brazil's first indigenous congressman / Seth Garfield.