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Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake
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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands o
Death Is a Festival
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: João José Reis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11-20 - Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement
Brazil on the Rise
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Pages: 305
Authors: Larry Rohter
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A fabled country with a reputation for danger, romance and intrigue, Brazil has transformed itself in the past decade. This title, written by the go-to journali
Killed in Brazil?
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