Best brazilian history books according to redditors
We found 35 Reddit comments discussing the best brazilian history books. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 35 Reddit comments discussing the best brazilian history books. We ranked the 22 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Pretty much not off the mark. Phil Zimbardo, who is the psychologist famous for the Stanford Prison Experiment, helped co-write a book called Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities, and basically, yeah, they got wives and kids. Have barbeques and hang out with friends and drink. They keep their professional life and their personal lives very separate.
Granted this book mostly focuses on police torturers, death squad members, and generally people that are employed by the government, and that may have an influence because it's a little easier to justify what you're doing when you can tell yourself your a soldier or a policeman and on the right side of the law, and that what you're doing is getting drugs off your streets and reducing crime, as if the ends justify the means. Whereas these guys chopping off rivals heads with chainsaws mostly seem like criminals committing crime and a lot of these guys are probably complete maniacs.
But in Zimbardos research, at least when these guys are doing this for the police or as a death squad soldier working for a heavy-handed government, a lot of the total psychopaths (who you would think might me the ideal candidate for this fucked up line of work) are weeded out pretty quickly as being loose cannons, and not really reliable for extracting information they want. The ones that are good at torturing people and murdering people actually have fairly solid heads on their shoulders, look at what they're doing as righteous and for a bigger cause (to keep their streets safe, or to support a family by working for the government which has the population to provide for, etc.). And for the violence workers interviewed, they basically just leave all that rotten shit in the office on Friday afternoon and go home to mow the lawn and lay in the hammock, or whatever.
I recommend these books:
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Brazil: The Fortunes of War
By Neill Lochery
http://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Fortunes-War-Neill-Lochery/dp/0465039987/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1420994769&sr=8-1&keywords=brazil+ww2
darcy ribeiro The Brazilian People: The Formation and Meaning of Brazil
Best reading on the topic:
http://www.amazon.com/1808-Emperor-British-Tricked-Napoleon/dp/0762787961
This book is a best seller in Brazil.
Here is a citation from Guy Bailey, and here's a book about "The Lost Colony of the Confederacy."
The lack of dialects in colonies is due to two factors - lack of time and homogenization. In England, there have been hundreds of years for different groups to live apart and have their varieties of English develop separately. Consider that until the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, most of the United States lived on the Eastern coast, which is where the most diverse dialects of the United States are. The cities and towns on the Eastern coast had more time to develop differently compared to the Midwest and Western states. They also had more time to be "isolated" from each other, in an era where communication and movement between cities was much more difficult. That's the reason that Western dialects are more homogenous - there's a lot of movement, resulting in leveling of dialect differences, and just not enough time. But that doesn't mean there will never be new dialects. There are already sound shifts that can be found in California that aren't in the rest of the west, for example.
Although I'm not familiar with dialects of other colonial/colonizing languages, e.g. Spanish, French, I would wager that something similar is probably happening there. Although at least with Spanish, the different Spanish countries have noticeably distinct accents, mostly with regards to lexicon and intonation. Perhaps because those countries had been settled by the colonizing force longer than the American West? And I cannot say much on the topic of French.
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Looking quickly at their excellent reading/watching list, https://www.reddit.com/r/history/wiki/recommendedlist
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http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Modern-Beauty-Plastic-Surgery/dp/0822348012 - Less about medicine, more of an ethanography, there was a huge brazilian population where I used to live.
>http://www.amazon.com/Improvising-Medicine-Oncology-Emerging-Epidemic/dp/0822353423 - your call, I've read others that are similar in the past (dark african hospitals, mom was a doctor, it came up) but this is apparently more popular now. 10 years ago it was the horror of aids, those books are almost unreadable, if it were any other subject you'd simply have trouble suspending disbelief. http://www.amazon.com/The-Paradox-Hope-Journeys-Borderland/dp/0520267354 is another similar book.
http://www.amazon.com/Tales-Shamans-Apprentice-Ethnobotanist-Medicines/dp/0670831379 - Is probably better if you don't want all the doom/gloom view of african medicine.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10235.Mountains_Beyond_Mountains - Figure you've read this, it's highly recommended and extremely popular now, part of the whole 're-imagining medicine' movement.
>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/161121.My_Own_Country - Speaking of my mom, she was a doctor near here, it's definitely a different world.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Mistook-His-Wife/dp/0684853949 - Read it because of the neuroscience aspect, but I suppose you could consider it a very specialized ethanography of sorts.
Honestly the most popular nowadays is probably the one about the Hmong girl in my first post. I'd recommend it more because I've known a few Hmong and the cultural differences are fascinating.
Here, u/JewbaccaIsReal. 3 recomendations, all well-reviewed and updated (oldest is from 2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Biography-Lilia-M-Schwarcz/dp/0374280495
(The translated edition is newly launched, so there are no reviews yet, but the brazilian one has 4,5 stars)
https://www.amazon.com/Brazil-Troubled-Rise-Global-Power/dp/0300216971/
https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Brazil-Cambridge-Histories/dp/1107635241
I highly recommend A Concise History of Brazil, by Boris Fausto, which was recommended to me by my History teacher when I was a senior in high school here in Brazil. It's very accurate and it's also an enjoyable reading.
Maeda did and taught more than Judo. Just finished reading With the Back on the Ground... good book.
I think it is more complicated than that. I'm not putting down wrestling AT ALL, but I think modern MMA has a lot more factors that favor wrestling over BJJ that aren't technical. For example, the scoring system rewards a takedown even if the person on top can't mount a good offense.
Being a brazilian also carries the burden of knowing a lot of books about each period and only just a few who talks about the whole scenario. I think one of the best still is "History of Brazil" (História do Brasil), by Boris Fausto. As far as I've looked, they published the concise version, which might be good to get started (since the regular version is thick like a brick! But it's great nonetheless). Some others that might be interesting are: "Formation of Contemporary Brazil (Formação do Brasil contemporâneo), by Caio Prado Jr. He was one of the first biggest marxists of the country; "Roots of Brazil" (Raízes do Brasil), by Sergio Buarque de Holanda. He was one of the first biggest culturalists of country. If you wish for some books about any specific period of our timeline, just let me know.
i've ordered Herr Pep and Boquita. really pumped to read those. on the internet, Marti Perarnau has interesting guides to various European leagues.
the best soccer book of ALL time though is by Eduardo Galeano, El futbol a sol y sombra, also known as Soccer in Sun and Shadow.
Inverting the Pyramid is Great, How Soccer Explains the World is awesome, and Alex Bellos' book, Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life is also really, really great.
O Povo Brasileiro, Darcy Ribeiro.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Brazilian-People-Formation-University/dp/0813017777
Hey, it's no problem - the numbers do tend to vary. Let's look over the losses listed in the texts I have on hand, because I don't trust Wikipedia and refuse to click on your link:
In Independence or Death!, the author says that Paraguay suffered an almost 50% casualty rate, leaving a population of 221,000, with only 28,000 of them men (12.6%) (p 198). However, all the way back on page 7, he says that the estimated population of Paraguay in 1864 ranged between 450,000 and 1.5 million, "with the former being more correct." If this is the case, then his postwar population estimate would be based on the absolute lowest estimate available, so take it with a grain of salt.
Paraguay: Power Game, a slim monograph, agrees with this number on page 20, but I don't consider it to be a trustworthy source since it is highly revisionist and clearly written to emphasize Paraguayan victimhood at the hands of foreign powers: it promotes the idea that the real cause of the war was that Brazil, Argentina, and the United Kingdom wanted access to Paraguay's natural resources, and that the UK was threatened because Paraguay was "creating a more autonomous economic model," as Lilia Schwarcz puts it in The Emperor's Beard (she doubts this theory). This is obvious BS given the fact that, on the very same page as that claim, the authors say that Lopez was the one who invaded Argentina and Brazil).
Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society has a short segment on the war, and although it gives no absolute numbers it says that 60%-69% of the Paraguayan population died, and that there was a gender imbalance of 1-4/5 men to women following the war.
In this biography of marshal Lopez, the population is first said to have been halved, but in the same paragraph it is also said to have been reduced by three quarters, with a 1-2 male-female imbalance. The total postwar population is said to be 116,000, although "[o]thers think the number [is] somewhat larger." (p 193)
He cites this paper, but the paper itself estimates the population to be between 141,351 and 166,351; he appears to have deliberately left out the authors' correction for regions which didn't participate in the 1870 census, and the gender imbalance is said to be 4/5 to 1. I don't trust this book much, since the author seems to personally hate Lopez - every single page drips with vitriol. Biographies of Hitler are less biased. Also, this paper casts doubt on their claims.
Based on all this I think we can kinda-sorta guesstimate that around half to three fifths of Paraguayans died, with four out of five men dying, but that a there is a lot of hedge betting going on. There are other papers on this subject and I've avoided Spanish and Portuguese texts because my Portuguese is very bad and I don't speak Spanish at all, so there are some limitations. Also, I'd be happy to share the papers with you if you don't have access to JSTOR yourself, but I think I'll take a break. If I've messed up in some monumental way, please report me to /r/badhistory. :)
This actually happened to Brazil when Napoleon was threatening Portugal. Haven't read it yet, but here is the book you could read on what happened. If you would like the spoiler read the summary of Pedro I of Brazil here
The Brazil Reader.
See amazon link.
First of all, thank you so much for the compliment. Brazil is a really interesting country and has a lot of unique things, specially due to the heterogeneity of the population.
I'm not really sure about books in English, but there's an author "Boris Fausto", whose book is the first that comes to mind. This book, published by USP (the most important university in Brazil) is the one I have. I haven't read all of it, due to being busy lately, but I believe it gives a good feeling about Brazil, even though he doesn't cover some cultural aspects and movements, like the Modern Art Week of 1922. So, if I had to indicate someone, it would be him. His "[A Concise History of Brazil]"(https://www.amazon.com/Concise-History-Brazil-Cambridge-Histories/dp/1107635241/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) is available in English and the comments on Amazon seems to be positive. So I would check it out, for starters. I don't know about any foreign historians or geopolitical writers that cover Brazil in depth.
I believe that, if you read his book and did some research about the culture, you'd get a firm grasp of Brazil.
I only know books in English, but the Cambridge history books have been amazingly detailed resources so far:
Colonial Brazil (Cambridge History of Latin America)
Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822-1930 (Cambridge History of Latin America)
The Cambridge History of Latin America (Volume 9) (I haven't bought this because of the price)
A wonderfully fun book:
Historia de uma Viagem Feita á Terra do Brazil ( I read the English version )
I mean, there are entire books written about the unique Brazilian relationship with communication and transportation infrastructure, but okay.
The only information I provided that can't be found on a map is in regards to race in Brazil, something I learned about back in an undergrad course.
Race is a hot button issue in Brazil. While they only have a few categories for race on the census, they are widely disagreed with. Anything that discusses race in Brazil will discuss the complexity of how race is constructed.
I was first exposed to ideas regarding race in Brazil in the book Laughter out of Place
If you want more short-form reading on the subject, google "race in brazil" and it will be unavoidable.