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Portugal and Brazil in Transition.
Title:
Portugal and Brazil in Transition.
Author:
Sayers, Raymond S.
ISBN:
9780816664382
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (383 pages)
Contents:
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTORY ESSAY -- LITERATURE -- BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: The Task of the Next Twenty Years -- COMMENTARY -- PORTUGUESE LITERATURE: Its Prospects at Home and Abroad -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION OF THE TWO ESSAYS -- LINGUISTICS -- GALICIAN IN LUSO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES -- COMMENTARY -- LINGUISTICS IN PORTUGAL: The Task Ahead -- COMMENTARY -- CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN STUDIES IN PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION OF THE THREE ESSAYS -- PORTUGUESE AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE -- THE TEACHING OF PORTUGUESE IN THE UNITED STATES -- COMMENTARIES -- DISCUSSION -- COMMENTARIES ON Jean Roche's "The Teaching of Portuguese as a Foreign Language" -- DISCUSSION OF THE TWO ESSAYS -- HISTORY -- PERMANENCE AND CHANGE IN OVERSEAS PORTUGUESE THOUGHT -- COMMENTARY -- COMMENTARY ON José Sebastiāo da Silva Dias's "Aspects of Portuguese Political Thought in the Eighteenth Century" -- DISCUSSION OF THE TWO ESSAYS -- THE ONSET OF MODERNIZATION IN BRAZIL -- COMMENTARIES -- DISCUSSION -- BRAZIL'S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN THE OLD REPUBLIC -- COMMENTARIES -- DISCUSSION -- THE UNITED STATES AFRICA SQUADRON AT THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS -- INSTRUMENTS OF SCHOLARSHIP -- NEW ENGLAND AND THE PORTUGUESE WORLD: Source Materials -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION -- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- GROWTH AND CHANGE IN BRAZIL SINCE 1930: An Anthropological View -- COMMENTARIES -- DISCUSSION -- POPULAR CATHOLICISM IN BRAZIL: Typology and Functions -- ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POLITICAL INSTABILITY IN BRAZIL -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION -- THE NEW INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE BRAZILIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION -- SOCIAL EVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL SINCE 1945 -- A CASE STUDY OF THE PORTUGUESE BUSINESS ELITE 1964-1966 -- COMMENTARY -- DISCUSSION OF THE ESSAYS ON PORTUGAL -- GEOGRAPHY -- AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF THE BRAZILIAN LANDSCAPE -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZAMBEZI BASIN IN MOZAMBIQUE.

DISCUSSION OF THE TWO ESSAYS -- FINE ARTS -- LISBON OF 1750-1850: The Significance of Its Structural Evolution -- COMMENTRY -- THE ARCHITECTURE AND WOOD SCULPTURE OF THE NORTH OF PORTUGAL 1750-1850 -- THE ART OF BRAZIL: Research in the Period 1750-1850 -- DISCUSSION OF THE THREE ESSAYS -- PLATES -- MUSIC -- MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN IMPERIAL BRAZIL, 1822-1889 -- PORTUGUESE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS ABROAD, TO 1650 -- HISTORY OF SCIENCE -- MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE REFORM OF BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES -- PORTUGUESE ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TROPICS -- COMMENTARY ON THE TWO ESSAYS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the logic of organizing a volume not around a geographical concept but, rather, around a historical concept, in this case "the world the Portuguese created," as Gilberto Freyre described it. The essays are based on papers that were given at the Sixth International Colloquium of Luso-Brazilian Studies, held in the United States in 1966. In addition to the essays, the book contains the text of comments and discussion about the papers. There are twenty-seven major essays by as many contributors and comments by a number of discussants.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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