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Envisioning Brazil : a guide to Brazilian studies in the United States, 1945-2003
- Title
- Envisioning Brazil : a guide to Brazilian studies in the United States, 1945-2003 / edited by Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida.
- Publication
- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- xvi, 515 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Envisioning Brazil is a comprehensive and sweeping assessment of Brazilian studies in the United States. Focusing on synthesis and interpretation and assessing trends and perspectives, this reference work provides an overview of the writings on Brazil by United States scholars since 1945."--BOOK JACKET.
- Uniform Title
- Brasil dos brasilianistas. English.
- Subjects
- Note
- "The essays were updated by the various authors in late 2003 for this English-language edition"--ECIP Ch. 1.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 424-484) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : Brazilian studies in the United States : a project in development / Rubens Antonio Barbosa -- Introduction : envisioning Brazil and Brazilianists / Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida -- 1. Trends, perspectives, and prospects / Paulo Roberto de Almeida -- 2. Research on Brazil in the United States / Robert M. Levine -- 3. Teaching Brazil in U.S universities / Theodore R. Young -- 4. Brazilian Portuguese language and linguistics / Carmen Chaves Tesser -- 5. Literature, culture, and civilization / K. David Jackson -- 6. Arts and music / Jose Neistein -- 7. Brazilian history in the United States / Judy Bieber -- 8. Anthropology of Amazonia / Janet M. Chernela -- 9. The Brazilian economic system through U.S. lenses / Werner Baer and Roberto Guimaraes -- 10. Political science and sociology / Marshall C. Eakin -- 11. International relations / Scott D. Tollefson -- 12. Geography / Cyrus B. Dawsey III -- 13. The British contribution to the study of Brazil / Leslie Bethell -- 14. Comparative development of the study of Brazil in the United States and France / Edward A. Riedinger -- 15. A chronology of U.S.-Brazil relations and academic publications, 1945-2002 / Paulo Roberto de Almeida -- 16. Brasiliana in the United States : reference sources and documents / Ann Hartness -- 17. Selective bibliography and chronology / Paulo Roberto de Almeida.
- ISBN
- 0299207706 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005001336
- OCLC
- ocm57493979
- SCSB-8810038
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries