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The independence and early imperial generations (1800-1869). Daniel Gomes de Freitas : liberal conspiracy in the early national period / Hendrik Kraay -- Agostinho José Pereira : the divine teacher / Marcus J.M. de Carvalho -- The generations of the Late Empire (1870-1889) and the Old Republic, (1889-1930) -- Juca Rosa : spiritual leader and healer / Gabriela dos Reis Sampaio -- Jacobina Maurer : German-Brazilian mystic / Roger A. Kittleson -- Adolfo Ferreira Caminha : navy officer, ardent republican, and naturalist novelist / Peter M. Beattie -- Cándido Mariano da Silva Rondon : one man's search for the Brazilian nation / Todd A. Diacon -- The Populist-Era generations (1930-1959) -- Geraldo Pereira : samba composer and grifter / Bryan McCann -- Domingos da Guia : a mestizo hero on and off the soccer field / Leonardo Affonso de Miranda Pereira -- Norma Fraga : race, class, education, and the Estado Novo / Jerry Dávila -- Vicente Racioppi : the local preservationist and the national state / Daryle Williams -- The generations of authoritarian military rule and neoliberalism : (1960 to the twenty-first century) -- J'fre Corrêa Netto : the Fidel Castro of Brazil / Cliff Welch -- Carolina Maria de Jesus : from ragpicking to best-selling author and back again / Robert M. Levine -- Dom Hélder Câmara : the father of the church of the poor / Kenneth P. Serbin -- Madame Sata (Satan) : the Black "Queen" of Rio's bohemia / James N. Green -- Mario Juruna : Brazil's first indigenous congressman / Seth Garfield. |
