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Bethell, L. (2003) Brazil by British and Irish Authors. Oxford, Centre for Brazilian Studies. [ISBN 0-9544070-1-6].
Brazil by British and Irish Authors is a detailed survey of the rich and varied literature on Brazil by British (and some Irish) authors published between the late 16th century and the present day. It surveys the relatively few descriptions of Brazil under Portuguese colonial rule in British travel narratives and offers a comprehensive guide to the many accounts of Brazil by British residents and visitors during the 19th and 20th centuries. Brazil by British and Irish Authors also examines the books on Brazil by British scholars in universities and other research institutions and by British travellers and independent authors during the second half of the twentieth century.
Guenther, L. (2004) British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: Business, Culture and Identity in Bahia, 1808-50. Oxford, Centre for Brazilian Studies. [ISBN 0-9544070-3-2].
Entrepreneurial British merchant communities, such as the small, but influential community in Bahia, Brazil, laid the early foundations for today's globalized business environment. Remarkably, though, little is known about the actual social processes underlying these communities. In a wide-ranging examination of the activities, relationships and cultural perceptions of Bahia's British community, British Merchants in Nineteenth-Century Brazil extends well beyond the current boundaries of scholarship on nineteenth-century British influence in Latin America as well as making a significant contribution to the growing field of world business history.
Jackson, D. (Ed.) (2005) Haroldo de Campos: A Dialogue with the Brazilian Concrete Poet.
This book is based on a series of papers that were presented at conferences at Oxford and Yale universities in honour of Haroldo de Campos as a poet, critic and translator. It is important for its critical focus on the concrete aesthetic in prose and poetry as well as the close-up of Haroldo de Campos by major names in international literary studies. A founder of the movement of “concrete poetry” in Brazil in the 1950s, Haroldo de Campos (1929-2003) was a distinguished essayist, translator, and theorist. Nicknamed by German semiotician Max Bense “the locomotive of São Paulo,” Campos’s influence has been profound. He changed the course of Brazilian literature and Portuguese language poetry in over fifty years of devotion to their international and comparative dimensions. Caetano Veloso alludes to Campos in his songs, the Tropicália movement made him known to an entire new generation, and the writing of poetry in Brazil came to reflect concrete techniques and materials. Campos’s essays, published in literary supplements of large circulation newspapers, played an important role in shaping public critical debate on literary and cultural topics. His translations range from Joyce, Mallarmé, Bashô, and Pound to the complete Iliad. In turn, many of his writings have been translated and published internationally.
Malerba, J. (Ed.) (2006) A independência brasileira: Novas dimensões. Rio de Janeiro, FGV Editora. [ISBN 85-225-0566-7].
O tema da independência brasileira já atravessa quase 200 anos de história. Foi eleito marco simbólico da função nacional durante o século XIX. Instaurou-se a república e, ironia, logo viriam as comemorações do centenário, pretexto perfeito para a apropriação da memória do grande acontecimento. Este livro conta a história da emancipação política brasileira, voltando o foco para perspectivas historiográficas inovadoras, como o peso das dimensões simbólicas , étnicas e culturais, a formação da opinião pública, os jogos de poder e as interações de sujeitos, dentro de redes de sociabilidade e interesses jamais investigados com tamanha profundidade.
Marshall, O. (2007) Brazil in British & Irish Archives (Second Edition) [ISBN 978-0-9544070-8-7].
One enduring legacy of the close relationship between Britain and Brazil over the course of centuries is the existence in the British Isles of a wealth of archival holdings relating to Brazil. Brazil in British and Irish Archives is the first guide devoted to this rich resource. The Brazil-related manuscript holdings of 79 British and Irish archives, libraries and museums that are described in this expanded and revised second edition of the guide are extremely varied, but together they offer unique insights into 16th- to 20th-century Brazilian history. Although this material is specially important for the understanding of 19th- and early 20th-century British-Brazilian relations, many other historical themes and periods are illuminated. Historians will find Brazil in British and Irish archives to be an invaluable tool for identifying material that is held by national, local and specialist archival repositories.
Marshall, O. (2005) English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers
in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Oxford, Centre for Brazilian Studies. [ISBN 0-9544070-4-0].
Brazil is not usually associated with British agricultural immigrants, but in the late 1860s and early 1870s great efforts were made to stimulate interest in the country. An idealized image of Brazil was created to help persuade dissatisfied Irish and English to pack up and join settlement schemes in a country which they had previously known nothing about. Oliver Marshall examines why and how promoters of Brazilian land colonization schemes specifically sought out English and Irish settlers, signing up hundreds of immigrants. Most of these recruits were drawn to Brazil by promises of cheap land, employment and the hope of economic independence. But the immigrants encountered a land almost entirely unprepared and a British community that was ashamed of the sudden arrival of so many desperate compatriots. This book offers a vivid picture of this migration process and new insights into linkages between Ireland, England, the United States and Brazil. Focusing on the lives of individual immigrants, this is one of the most detailed studies of life in the Brazilian government's isolated and under-funded agricultural settlement schemes.
Nagib, L. (2003) The New Brazilian Cinema. London, I.B. Tauris. [ISBN 1-86064-928-9].
Lucia Nagib presents the first comprehensive critical survey of Brazilian film production since the mid 1990s, which has become known as the 'Renaissance of Brazilian cinema'. Besides reflecting on the conditions that have made this recent boom possible, this book elaborates on the new aesthetic tendencies of recent productions, as well as their relationships to earlier traditions of Brazilian cinema. Internationally acclaimed films, such as Central Station, Seven Days in September and Orpheus are analysed alongside daringly experimental works, such as Chronically Unfeasible, Starry Sky and Perfumed Ball.
Rolim, M. (2006) A Síndrome da Rainha Vermelha: Policiamento e segurança pública no século XXI. Rio de Janeiro, Jorge Jahar Editor. [ISBN 85-7110-917-6].
Marcos Rolim, especialista em segurança pública e direitos humanos, oferece uma visão reveladora e desconcertante de um dos assuntos mais prementes da atualidade: a segurança pública. Utilizando dados da moderna criminologia, analisando exemplos e fazendo uma análise comparativa de diversas práticas policiais internacionais, o autor mostra como as polícias podem ser repensadas e quais os parâmetros mais promissores para uma reforma eficaz. Com prefácio de Luiz Eduardo Soares e linguagem clara e acessível, o livro – cujo título é uma metáfora à personagem Rainha Vermelha, da galeria fantástica de Lewis Carroll – é indicado não só a especialistas, mas a todos os interessados no tema.
Banking and finance are often studied as specialized domains, governed by their own esoteric rules and concepts, and best cordoned off from broader comparative, historical and political considerations. This book develops an alternative approach. It focuses on the recent, strikingly deviant, experience of Brazil but goes well beyond that single case. It assesses financial sector reform and the consolidation of legitimate monetary authority in an era of globalization and democratization, and advocates the adoption of a holistic and contextualized perspective. It explores the cumulative potential of an incremental ‘statecrafting’ approach, in contrast to recently fashionable technical ‘fixes’ such as the idea that central bank independence provides a reliable and universal remedy for all monetary ills. This perspective generates a new interpretation of the development of the monetary system of democratizing Brazil, particularly illuminating key features of financial policy during the administrations of Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The aim of the book is to contribute to reinvigorating the debate over appropriate policy reforms in today's emerging markets, by posing a challenge to various prevailing orthodoxies and dogmas.