PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL IN TRANSITION, edited by Raymond S. Sayers, published by the University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis. [1968]. [Dim. aprox. 18 x 26 cm.] de VIII-367-[I] págs. E.
“Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature, linguistics, history, the social sciences, geography, the fine arts, music, and natural science. Taken as a whole, the contents demonstrate the logic of organizing a volume not around a geographical concept but, rather, around a historical concept, in this case “the worls the Portuguese created,” as Gilberto Freyre described it. The essays are based on papers that were given at the Sixth International Colloquium of Luso-Brazilian Studies, held in the United States in 1966. In addition to the essays, the book contains the text of comments and discussion about the papers. There are 27 major essays by as many contributors and comments by a number of discussants.
“Raymond S. Sayers, the editor, is a professor of Romance languages at Queens College of the City University of New York and senior lecturer in Portuguese at Columbia University. In an introduction, he points out: «Both Portugal and Brazil have been active contributors to and participants in Ocidental culture, and so the present and future condition of all aspects of their culture shouls be interesting to other nations. Professor França states in his essay on urbanization in Lisbon that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the other European nations were ignorant of the lesson in cuty planning that the Portuguese were forced to learn after the earthquake, but such ignorance should not exist today.»”.
Colaboração: BRAZILIAN LITERATURE: Wilson Martins; Silviano Santiago. PORTUGUESE LITERATURE: Jorge de Sena, Raymond S. Sayers. GALICIAN IN LUSO-BRAZILIAN STUDIES: Ramón Piñero López, Celso Ferreira da Cunha. LINGUISTICS IN PORTUGAL: J. G. Herculano de Carvalho, David M. Feldman. CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN STUDIES IN PORTUGUESE LINGUISTICS: J. Mattoso Câmara, Brian F. Head. THE TEACHING OF PORTUGUESE IN THE UNITED STATES: Fred P. Ellison, Maria Isabel Abreu, Frederick C. H. Garcia, Francisco Gomes de Matos, Zdenek Hampl, Oscar Fernández. PERMANENCE AND CHANGE IN OVERSEAS PORTUGUESE THOUGHT: Alexandre Lobato, David M. Davidson, José Sebastião da Silva Dias. THE ONSET OF MODERNIZATION IN BRAZIL: Richard Graham, Maria Yedda Leite Linhares, Nícia Vilela Luz, Francisco Iglésias. BRAZIL’S SEARCH FOR IDENTITY IN THE OLD REPUBLIC: Thomas E. Skidmore, Francisco de Assis Barbosa, George C. A. Boehrer, Bradford Burns, Thomas E. Skidmore. THE UNITED STATES AFRICA SQUADRON AT THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS: Samuel Eliot Morison. NEW ENGLAND AND THE PORTUGUESE WORLD: John Horace Parry, Edgar C. Knowlton. GROWTH AND CHANGE IN BRAZIL SINCE 1930: David H. P. Maybury-Lewis, Thales de Azevedo, Marvin Harris. POPULAR CATHOLICISM IN BRAZUL: Thales de Azevedo. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND POLITICAL ONSTABILITY IN BRAZIL: Florestan Fernandes, José Arthur Rios. THE NEW INDUSTRIALIZATION AND THE BRAZILIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM: Gláucio Ary Dillon Soares, Robert A. Packenham. SOCIAL EVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL SINCE 1945: João Baptista Nunes Pereira Neto. A CASE STUDY OF THE PORTUGUESE BUSINESS ELITE, 1964-1966: Harry M. Makler, Joyce F. Riegelhaupt. AN EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF THE BRAZILIAN LANDSCAPR: Kempton E. Webb. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ZAMBEZI BASIN IN MOZAMBIQUE: Fernando de Castro Fontes. LISBON OF 1750-1850: José Augusto França, Carlos de Azevedo. THE ARCHITECTURE AND WOOD SCULPTURE OF THE NORTH OF PORTUGAL, 1750-1850: Flávio Gonçalves. THE ART OF BRAZIL: Mário Barata. MUSIC AND SOCIETY IN IMPERIAL BRAZIL, 1822-1889: Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo. PORTUGUESE MUSIC AND MUSICIANS ABROAD, TO 1650: Robert M. Stevenson. MEDICAL EDUCATION AND THE REFORM OF BRAZILIAN UNIVERSITIES: Roberto Figueira Simões. PORTUGUESE ACTIVITIES IN PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE TROPICS: F. J. C. Cambournac, João Manuel do Rosário Pacheco de Figueiredo.
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