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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Nineteenth-century Brazil"”.
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Chimeras and Jagunços: Positivist Discourse in Euclides da Cunha's Os Sertões
… positivism, as particularly manifested in late nineteenth-century Brazil. Founded in 1889, the Republic of the United States of Brazil was constructed as a positivist state by republican idealists and pragmatic oligarchs; the political embodiment of ordem e progresso (order and progress). It was …
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Essays in development economics
… conditional cash transfer programs like the Brazilian Bolsa Familia. The first two chapters show how variations in the initial levels of human capital lead to widely divergent long run outcomes. In the third chapter attention is shifted to a different type of initial condition, namely …
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Tempos de revoltas no Brasil Oitocentista: Ressignificação da cabanagem no baixo Tapajós (1831-1840)
Este trabalho se propõe a dissertar sobre a Cabanagem, concebida como um tema de relevância social para o Brasil e, principalmente para a Amazônia brasileira. Visto que a Amazônia e, assim também, o Grão-Pará não encontravam-se dissociados do cenário político-econômico brasileiro, nem tampouco da …