Culture and Customs of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. juuni 2003 - 195 pages Race, religion, language, culture, and national character are full of contradictions. Brazil, the largest country in South America, embodies so much paradox that it defies neat description. This book will help students and general readers dispel stereotypes of Brazil and begin to understand what country's bigness means in terms of its land, people, history, society, and cultural expressions. |
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... COLONY , 1549-1580 This somewhat mixed success prompted the crown to consider other al- ternatives . And , although the ... colonial period . By 1580 a system of town government was established , the French had been driven out , and both ...
... colony had such impact was that part of Portuguese colonial policy had been to keep Brazil quite literally in a state of servility during the colonial period . Brazil was viewed not only as a potential threat to the integrity of the ...
Jon S. Vincent. THE COLONIAL PERIOD ( 1500-1830 ) Early colonial Brazil was a harsh environment with sparsely settled and widely separated Portuguese outposts in which survival itself was by no means assured and in which the Portuguese ...
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