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Latin American History: Brazil

Online Primary Documents

Anais do Senado
Records of the Brazilian Senate
Brazil and the river Plate in 1868
Brazil viewed through a naval glass: with notes on slavery and the slave trade (1856)
Brazil; its conditions and prospects (1887)
Forty years in Brazil (1914)
Ordenações Filipinas on-line
Universidade de Coimbra; code laws of Brazilian colonial history
Ordenações Manuelinas on-line
Universidade de Coimbra; code laws of Brazilian colonial history
Relics & Selves
Relics and Selves is a virtual museum offering a comprehensive interactive exhibition, mostly in photographs, of the national iconographies of Argentina, Chile and Brazil in the final decades of the nineteenth century.
Travels in the interior of Brazil: principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841

Media

Black music of Brazil
Call Number: DVD M1689.S65 2000
Brazil
Call Number: DVD BL65.P7F38 vol. 3

Highlights the political initiatives taken by Brazil's top two religious entities: Catholics and evangelical Protestants
Waste land
Call Number: DVD TR647.M86W37 2011

Jardim Gramacho, or "Garbage Garden" , the world's largest landfill, receives 7,000 tons daily, an astonishing 70% of all Rio's garbage

Books

Coffee and transformation in São Paulo, Brazil
Call Number: HD9199.B8S217 2010
Fordlandia : the rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city
Call Number: F2651.F55G72x 2010
Legalizing identities : becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s northeast
Call Number: F2636.F74 2009
Slavery in Brazil
Call Number: HT1126.K54 2010