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Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil 1850-1914
Author: Richard Graham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1968-07-02
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780521070782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a detailed study of British influence in Brazil as a theme within the larger story of modernization. The British were involved at key points in the initial stages of modernization. Their hold upon the import-export economy tended to slow down industrialization, and there were other areas in which their presence acted as a brake upon Brazilian modernization. But the British also fostered change. British railways provided primary stimulus to the growth of coffee exports, and since the British did not monopolize coffee production, a large proportion of the profits remained in Brazilian hands for other uses. Furthermore, the burgeoning coffee economy shattered traditional economic, social and political relationships, opening up the way for other areas of growth. The British role was not confined to economic development. They also contributed to the growth of 'a modern world-view'. Spencerianism and the idea of progress, for instance, were not exotic and meaningless imports, but an integral part of the transformation Brazil was experiencing.
The Affairs Pending Between England and Brazil
Football Match
God is Brazilian
Author: Josh Lacey
Publisher: Tempus
Published: 2007-07-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780752443959
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A biography of Charles Miller, the man who taught Brazil how to play Football.
The Country of Football
Author: Paulo Fontes
Publisher: Hurst & Company Limited
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1849044171
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between soccer, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the 'country of soccer' prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which soccer exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.
British Preëminence in Brazil
British Preëminence in Brazil
British Merchants in Nineteenth-century Brazil
Author: Louise H. Guenther
Publisher: Centre for Brazilian Studies
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Absent-minded Imperialism
Author: Peter Riviere
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1995-12-31
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book looks at the mainsprings of imperial expansion and illustrates the grain of truth in J.R. Seeley's famous phrase in The Expansion of England: 'We seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.' Peter Riviere gives a vivid account of how the British Empire at the zenith of its power was dragged reluctantly, and with little thought and no clear policy, into a minor border dispute with Brazil which was solved only after sending a boundary commission and an expeditionary force. Centred on the Indian village of Pirara on the border between northern Brazil and British Guiana, in a remote territory in the interior, the story of the Anglo-Brazilian border dispute reveals much about the varied and conflicting motivations of imperial expansion. Zealous Protestant and Catholic mission activity, attempts to end slavery, and the overwhelming motivation to establish links and to define and control imperial boundaries were key aspects of the dispute. This is a beautifully written and vivid anthropological and historical narrative, with acute analysis of imperial expansion, based upon extensive fieldwork and Foreign Office, Colonial Office and missionary society records.
