The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil


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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.










Travels, Explorations and Empires, 1770-1835, Part II Vol 7


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A collection of work that attempts to reflect the diversity of travel literature from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. This literature often reveals something of the cultural and gender difference of the travellers, as well as ideas on colonialism, anthropology and slavery.




Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil


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The first scholarly edition of Maria Graham’s Journal of a Voyage to Brazil (1824). In addition to Graham's original journal, footnotes, and illustrations, the editors contextualize Graham’s narrative with a scholarly introduction, extensive annotations, and appendices including original reviews and Graham’s unpublished “Life of Don Pedro.”