The human tradition in modern Brazil / edited by Peter M. Beattie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beattie, Peter M., 1963-

Series:

Human tradition around the world ; no. 7.

The Human tradition around the world ; no. 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

Brazil--History--1763-1822--Biography.

Brazil.

Brazil--History--1822---Biography.

Brazil--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxii, 304 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Del. : SR Books, [2004]

Summary:

The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil makes the last two centuries of Brazilian history come alive through the stories of mostly non-elite individuals. The pieces in this lively collection address how people experienced historical continuities and changes by exploring how they related to the rise of Brazilian national identity and the emergence of a national state. By including a broad array of historical actors from different regions, ethnicities, occupations, races, genders, and eras, The Human Tradition in Modern Brazil brings a human dimension to major economic, political, cultural, and social transitions. Because these perspectives do not always fit with the generalizations made about the predominant attitudes, values, and beliefs of different groups, they bring a welcome complexity to the understanding of Brazilian society and history.

Contents:

The independence and early imperial generations (1800-1869). Daniel Gomes de Freitas : liberal conspiracy in the early national period / Hendrik Kraay

Agostinho José Pereira : the divine teacher / Marcus J.M. de Carvalho

The generations of the Late Empire (1870-1889) and the Old Republic, (1889-1930)

Juca Rosa : spiritual leader and healer / Gabriela dos Reis Sampaio

Jacobina Maurer : German-Brazilian mystic / Roger A. Kittleson

Adolfo Ferreira Caminha : navy officer, ardent republican, and naturalist novelist / Peter M. Beattie

Cándido Mariano da Silva Rondon : one man's search for the Brazilian nation / Todd A. Diacon

The Populist-Era generations (1930-1959)

Geraldo Pereira : samba composer and grifter / Bryan McCann

Domingos da Guia : a mestizo hero on and off the soccer field / Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira

Norma Fraga : race, class, education, and the Estado Novo / Jerry Dávila

Vicente Racioppi : the local preservationist and the national state / Daryle Williams

The generations of authoritarian military rule and neoliberalism : (1960 to the twenty-first century)

J'fre Corrêa Netto : the Fidel Castro of Brazil / Cliff Welch

Carolina Maria de Jesus : from ragpicking to best-selling author and back again / Robert M. Levine

Dom Hélder Câmara : the father of the church of the poor / Kenneth P. Serbin

Madame Sata (Satan) : the Black "Queen" of Rio's bohemia / James N. Green

Mario Juruna : Brazil's first indigenous congressman / Seth Garfield.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0842050388

0842050396

OCLC:

52121376