For years scholars have studied Europe's influence on elite thought in latenineteenth and
early-twentieth-century Brazil. During the Belle Époque, wealthy Brazilians often drew …

A new history of Brazil's eighteenth century that foregrounds debates about wealth,
difference, and governance Transformations in Portugal and Brazil followed the discovery of …

Perhaps Cacique's greatest value lies in the systematic conceptualisation of its slippery
subject. Alan Knight would replace the caudillo/cacique dichotomy in favour of a more …

The hallmark of the belle époque of Rio de Janeiro, 1898-1914, was the pervasive and
permeating culture of European aristocratic origin, mainly French and British, fostered by its …

In this text, motivated by the need to offer a different perspective to the representation of the
Senado da Câmara (Municipal Council) in relation to the society that participated in Corpus …

Portuguese colonists carried their conceptions of social organization to the Americas. Their
ideal was to “live like a gentleman,” that is, to own land and command laborers in order to …

America. Taking as her focus the minuscule British merchant colony that formed in Bahia
after the opening of Brazil's ports in 1808, Louise Guenther offers an" anthropological …

The members of the Brazilian nobility, as the author makes clear, were not a formal
corporation, as were medievally derived European nobilities, but were an “officially selected …

South Atlantic is a fascinating and thought-provoking study of the Portuguese empire's rise
to power in the South Atlantic during the long seventeenth century. Alencastro is the Director …

In recent years the period between 1890 and 1920 has attracted more and more atten? tion
from Brazilian scholars and foreign Brazilianists. Perhaps understandably, the most …