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Brazil offers complete coverage of this fascinating country, including sections on history, geography, wildlife, infrastructure and government, and culture. It also includes a detailed fact file, maps and charts, and a traceable flag.

The third book in the Brasil Aventura series, presenting the main Brazilian islands (oceanic, coastal and fluvial) under the concept of small portions of paradise - Marajó, Fernando de Noronha, Ilhabela, Lençóis, Santa Catarina, Bananal, Lagamar and other of the most beautiful landscapes, revealing a plural Brazil, a land of natural and cultural diversity.

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This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a modern low fertility and mortality one, the economy approached hyper inflation many times, and it abandoned a policy of protected industrialization to an economy opened to world trade. The advances and the failures of these changes are examined for the impact on questions of growth and equality. The book is designed as a basic introduction to contemporary Brazil from a recent historical perspective and is one of the first such comprehensive surveys of recent Brazilian history and development in any language.

Soccer is the world’s most popular sport, and the Brazilian national team is beloved around the planet for its beautiful playing style, the jogo bonito. With the most successful national soccer team in the history of the World Cup, Brazil is the only country to have played in every competition and the winner of more championships than any other nation. Soccer is perceived, like carnival and samba, to be quintessentially Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian. Yet the practice and history of soccer are also synonymous with conflict and contradiction as Brazil continues its trajectory toward modernity and economic power. The ongoing debate over how Team Brazil should play and positively represent a nation of demanding supporters bears on many crucial facets of a country riven by racial and class tensions. The Country of Football is filled with engaging stories of star players and other key figures, as well as extraordinary research on local, national, and international soccer communities. Soccer fans, scholars, and readers who are interested in the history of sport will emerge with a greater understanding of the complex relationship between Brazilian soccer and the nation’s history.

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An admirable "History of Brazil", by French historians Bartolomé Bennassar and Richard Marin, which is very timely in the year that marks the 500th anniversary of its discovery (or "achamento"). It is a fundamental work for understanding the history of a country "whose Portuguese culture has made it a universe apart in Latin America" and which has been arousing growing interest all over the world.

Explore the best of Brazil with Lonely Planet. Whether you're going for all-night samba, climbing Pão de Açúcar, spotting the Pantanal's prolific wildlife, surfing or heading deep into the Amazon rain forest, our 8th edition is the essential travel resource.Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip. In This Guide: Dedicated Carnaval chapter and party plannerSpecial itineraries take you down the Amazon, to Iguaçu Falls and beyondUnique Green Index identifies sustainable options for an ecofriendly trip.

The year 1752 is considered by many historians to be the most important date in the long Portuguese history of Mozambique. It was the year of the establishment of the General Government of Mozambique, which put an end to two and a half centuries of East African dependence on the Indian administration. This book studies the reasons that dictated this measure, which is tantamount to analyzing the colony's distressing situation in the mid-18th century.

Os portugueses no Brasil is a book that no Brazilian should miss. In it, Elaine Sanceau introduces the reader to the first decades of Brazil's history. The struggles, difficulties, uncertainties and hopes of the first settlers of our homeland are exposed in a fascinating way, revealing a wonderful reality that goes far beyond the Armando legend.

After several years of research in Portuguese and Brazilian libraries and archives, the author gathered enough information to prove the existence of 103 pillories in Brazilian territory. It is about these pillories that Vasco Salema deals with in this magnificent and unique work, which is adorned with drawings and photogravures of many of these historical and cultural patterns.

The first bilingual anthology of Brazilian Poetry to cover its entire 500-year-long history, this book drew the following comment from Yale's expert in world literature, Harold Bloom: Poets of Brazil: A Bilingual Selection is the only book available that gives these poets to us in both languages, Portuguese and American English. The choice of poets is remarkably inclusive and various and is particularly enlightening in the works of the twentieth-century Republic of Brazil. In particular, the representation of Manuel Bandeira, of the three Andrades and of Archanjo are brilliantly rendered. The quality of the introduction and notes is also estimable.

Do the Americas have a common history? When Herbert Eugene Bolton raised this question in his presidential address to the American Historical Society in 1933, he emphasized similar events that had shaped the "epic of greater America." European colonists, for example, had to adapt their parent cultures to the American environment; they found ways to exploit indigenous peoples and each region's natural resources. As the competition for empire intensified, each metropolis tried to monopolize colonial trade and consolidate its political control overseas. Between 1776 and 1826, revolts transformed most of Europe's colonies into independent states. We need not agree with Bolton's selection of events to be sympathetic to the task he defined: to view the history of the Americas in a comparative context that reaches beyond the boundaries of regions and states. -- Preface.

I believed in and have already lost the fantasy of a Portuguese-Brazilian nation in spirit, to which all of us who have been lucky enough to experience both countries could belong. For this fantasy, I spent years writing about Portugal in Brazil and Brazil in Portugal. This book is alphabetically arranged and organized by the interviewees' first names form. It's because it's their private lives that I'm going to peek into. And the shift from formality to colloquial language, with its intonations, its perplexities, its forays into the past, its moments of emotion.

One of the founding works of historiography and modern social sciences in Brazil. Sérgio Buarque elaborates central categories for understanding Brazil's historical specificity, such as that of the cordial man, incapable of acting according to the letter of the law, which would explain the laxity of the country's institutions and social organization.

Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the Western Hemisphere. This is the first complete modern survey of the institution of slavery in Brazil and how it affected the lives of enslaved Africans. It is based on major new research on the institution of slavery and the role of Africans and their descendants in Brazil. Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.

Embark on a journey through Brazil with Johann Baptist von Spix's captivating travelogue. Commissioned by the King of Bavaria, von Spix's account provides fascinating insights into the geography, history, and culture of Brazil, as well as his own observations and experiences.

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Looks at the history of Brazil, describes its government, economy, religions, and culture, and discusses problems Brazil will face in the future.

本書展現了巴西從古至今的歷史。包括印第安人時代、聖保羅捕奴隊的遠征、荷蘭人和葡萄牙人的拓殖、從黃金鑽石熱轉向農業開發、帝國的獨立、巴拉圭戰爭、奴隸制的廢除、第一共和國時期、1891年《憲法》與政治騷動、從瓦加斯威權主義體制到第二次世界大戰後民主政治、軍人獨裁政權與“巴西經濟奇迹”、政治民主化與社會經濟文化、盧拉的社會改革及其大國夢、羅塞夫政府下的巴西等各個階段。既包括土著人的慘遭屠戮、奴隸的抗爭史、對巴拉圭的不義之戰，又包括頻繁的軍事政變、近現代巴西的民族大融合、當代巴西人的熱情和樂觀。分析了整個巴西民族從分化到融合、從本能的抗爭到思想覺醒，直至走向民主的過程.

Having as its main theme the dismantling of social organization and work in the southern portion of Mozambique with the arrival of the Portuguese, From slave to cook places the country in the period from 1890 to 1940 describing the exploitation mechanisms used during colonization. Using a diverse range of historical documents, ranging from academic publications and official Portuguese documents to Mozambican newspapers and periodicals, Zamparoni presents not only an extensive and in-depth research work, but a moving account and engaging prose.

According to the people of the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers remake the world by asserting the authority of their own imaginative visions of it. While conducting research among these Muedans, anthropologist Harry G. West made a revealing discovery--for many of them, West's efforts to elaborate an ethnographic vision of their world was itself a form of sorcery. In Ethnographic Sorcery, West explores the fascinating issues provoked by this equation. A key theme of West's research into sorcery is that one sorcerer's claims can be challenged or reversed by other sorcerers. After West's attempt to construct a metaphorical interpretation of Muedan assertions that the lions prowling their villages are fabricated by sorcerers is disputed by his Muedan research collaborators, West realized that ethnography and sorcery indeed have much in common. Rather than abandoning ethnography, West draws inspiration from this connection, arguing that anthropologists, along with the people they study, can scarcely avoid interpreting the world they inhabit, and that we are all, inescapably, ethnographic sorcerers.

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On the Mueda plateau in northern Mozambique, sorcerers are said to feed on their victims, sometimes "creating" lions or transforming themselves into lions to literally devour their flesh. When the ruling FRELIMO party embraced socialism, it condemned witchcraft beliefs and counter-witchcraft practices as false ideas, but since undertaking neoliberal reform, the party - still in power after three electoral cycles - has "tolerated tradition", allowing the rural population to interpret and interact with events in the language of witchcraft. Now, when lions roam the villages of the plateau in search of prey, those suspected of witchcraft are often lynched.
In this historical ethnography of witchcraft, Harry G. West draws on a decade of fieldwork and combines the perspectives of anthropology and political science to reveal how the inhabitants of the Mueda plateau expect the responsible authorities to keep an eye on the invisible realm of witchcraft and put down or, as they put it, "kupilikula" the destructive attacks of sorcerers by practicing a constructive form of counter-witchcraft themselves. Kupilikula argues that where neoliberal policies have fostered social division rather than security and prosperity, the people of the plateau have in fact used the discourse of sorcery to evaluate and sometimes overthrow reforms, presenting alternative visions of a transformed world.

Economic importance, properties and usefulness of cotton; history and centers of origin; worldwide production. Producing countries; income; culture in Portugal and Mozambique; taxonomy, species and varieties; the cotton plant, morphology, vegetative aspects; shedding; agronomic characteristics; fiber; climate; soils; nutritional needs, chemical fertilizers and organic improvers, sideration; main pests and their control; pesticides, phytosanitary treatments; main diseases and their control; cultural health, starting and burning cotton plants, burying waste, cultural pause; cultivation techniques; seeds; factors that influence the production and quality of cotton; critical period in the cotton vegetative cycle; main causes of low cotton yields; soil protection and conservation of its fertility; perspectives on cotton cultivation; selection and improvement; maintenance of varieties, multiplication and isolation, reselection. Attachments: global cotton production; productions in Mozambique; varieties studied in Mozambique; agronomic characteristics of the varieties; Technological characteristics of the fiber of the varieties.

This is the first scholarly study of soldiers and guerrillas demobilized after the civil war in Mozambique (1979-1992). The book examines former soldiers' - from both sides - return to civilian life, and how their identity as veterans plays out in the political sphere.

Work consisting of ten studies focusing on various aspects of Angola's multiple heritage of cultural interest. From the architecture of the kingdom of Congo, to the traditional architecture of Luanda and the urbanization of Angola, to the description of the Church of N.ª Sra. do Pópulo de Benguela, Dondo and the Fortress of S. Fernando de Moçamedes, everything is described to us in shiny shape. We are, therefore, taken to travel through a country rich in details and stories that remain in the memory of many Portuguese and Angolans who were captives of a land and a continent.

The author, a Portuguese army officer who belonged to MFA Angola and was in Eastern Angola at the end of 1974 in the talks that led to the ceasefire between the MPLA and Portugal, edits this work with depth of information and data, referring to the sources, which makes it a valuable aid for everyone interested in this process.
Recommended and very complete book, with the recent history of Angola, from the Alvor Agreement that prepared independence, to the signing of the Lusaka Agreement between Jonas Savimbi and José Eduardo dos Santos in 1992.

The book is the first comprehensive study of race relations in Angola. It covers the entire five-century-long relationship between the peoples of Angola and Portugal. Portuguese imperial thinkers asserted that they were unique among European colonizers in their ability to establish and maintain egalitarian and non-discriminatory relationships with tropical peoples. This concept was elevated to a philosophical plateau and given the name Luscotropicalism. Propagated with fervor by Portuguese colonial thinkers, Lusotropical doctrines were widely accepted as being valid by twentieth-century diplomats and political thinkers in both Europe and the United States, many of whom believed that Portuguese colonialism in Africa would continue indefinitely.
The evidence presented in this work indicates that Portuguese rule in Angola was deeply racist. This conclusion is based on a considerable body of data gleaned from archival sources, personal collections, and systematic interviewing of racially diverse Angolans and Portuguese functionaries in the colonial administration and the private sector. Special emphasis is placed on devices that the Portuguese used to delude themselves and others about the realities of their attitudes and behavior as ruling elites. The study concludes with an assessment of the impact of Lusotropical myths on independent Angola.

This history of Angola focuses particularly on the period between 1820 and the beginning of the 21st century, constituting an essential work for understanding current relations between Portugal and Angola.
David Birmingham details the social, economic and political evolution of Angola, covering topics such as the massive export of slaves, the collapse of the dream of the pink map in the face of the British ultimatum, the attempt to create a Jewish homeland in Angola, the War Colonialism, the violent years of civil war that followed independence, the oil and diamond business or the recent investments by wealthy Angolans - such as Isabel dos Santos, the first African woman billionaire - in the former metropolis, as a new form of «neocolonialism ». The work includes a historical chronology.

Angola has been brutalized by the civil war, which only ended in 1992. The war's adverse effect on every facet of Angola's post-independence life is clearly evident in the range of topics covered in this volume. The human cost of the war can be counted in the enormous loss of life and large-scale population displacement and in the continued postwar deaths and serious injuries inflicted by mines. The war also severely stunted economic growth and the development of necessary social services. However, since the end of the war Angola is slowly progressing. Many people have returned to their homes to continue their life. The task of rebuilding has been greatly assisted by humanitarian aid. Readers will learn about the nearly 100 ethnolinguistic groups and their various ways of life. Oyebade shows how religion defines the cultural character of the country. Christianity, the dominant religion, is portrayed as more urban-based, popular among the educated elite and middle class. Indigenous religious practices, still popular particularly in the rural areas, are covered as well. Oyebade celebrates the prolific Portuguese-language literary output and the skilled Angolan artists. Discussion of the traditional foods, ceremonies, music and dance, and more rounds out the coverage.

The dark years of European fascism left their indelible mark on Africa. As late as the 1970s, Angola was still ruled by white autocrats, whose dictatorship was eventually overthrown by black nationalists who had never experienced either the rule of law or participatory democracy. Empire in Africa takes the long view of history and asks whether the colonizing ventures of the Portuguese can bear comparison with those of the Mediterranean Ottomans or those experienced by Angola's neighbors in the Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa, or the Dutch colonies at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Transvaal. David Birmingham takes the reader through Angola's troubled past, which included endemic warfare for the first twenty-five years of independence, and examines the fact that in the absence of a viable neocolonial referee such as Britain or France, the warring parties turned to Cold War superpowers for a supply of guns. For a decade Angola replaced Vietnam as a field in which an international war by proxy was conducted. Empire in Africa explains how this African nation went from colony to independence, how in the 1990s the Cold War legacy turned to civil war, and how peace finally dawned in 2002.

Hereros Angola is a documentary about the ethnic group of the same name. Inhabiting the lands of southwestern Angola, Africa, coming from the Bantu people, the Hereros are owners of an ancestral tradition passed down orally from father to son. The film shows the living knowledge of these people in constant movement: from birth to death, crossing the most important aspects of the ancestry that maintains this ancient culture and gains new meanings through the cinematographic camera. The entire documentary was filmed in the language of the Hereros, a way of demystifying what could be a trial of a film created by the strangeness of a white person who was oblivious to these people. The director and photographer, Sérgio Guerra, lived in Angola for 15 years and witnessed Angolans' lack of knowledge about the country's traditional ethnicities. It was from this discovery and involvement with the Herero people that the photographer decided to make the film and produced an album with music from the Herero rites.

This album includes three neighboring urban centers, but with very different origins: the historic Benguela, the 19th century market town of Catumbela and the modern port city of Lobito. The 204 postcards selected from the extensive collection relating to Angola seek to show various important aspects of the landscape, architectural and social realities of the three important centers of the former district – current province – of Benguela. From the Creole city founded in 1617, we highlight the old streets and squares, the governors' palaces and the famous church of Nossa Senhora do Pópulo, scenes from the daily lives of the colonists, traders and native servants or even ivory carriers from over a hundred years ago. And there are also excerpts from public gardens and music bands from royal schools and the National Education League, the arrival of railways built from Lobito, as well as an enlightening series of postcards about the Catholic Mission of Ganda in the years 30”.

Portugal was the first European nation to assert itself aggressively in African affairs. David Birmingham's Portugal and Africa, a collection of uniquely accessible historical essays, surveys this colonial encounter from its earliest roots. The Portuguese established sugar plantations on Africa's offshore islands and built factories on the beaches in the fifteenth century, but Professor Birmingham explains that their focus shifted to regions where medieval African miners had discovered deep seams of gold ore. Later, when even richer mines and more fertile lands were captured from the native peoples of the Americas, Portuguese ships became the great “slave bridge” that spanned the Atlantic and ferried captive black workers to the colonies of the New World.
Portugal lost its major mining claims in Africa to the British, but it left a legacy of a new pattern of white settler colonization based on American-style plantations. The blending of European and African cultures and races led to the emergence of elite communities, from the Kongo princes of the seventeenth century to the creolized generals of today.
Portugal and Africa focuses extensively on Angola to cast new light on the final years of the colonial experience and its traumatic legacies. After 1950, Portuguese Angola became one of the most dynamic of Africa's colonies and the largest white colony outside of Algeria or South Africa. Angola's eventual collapse in a series of wars had devastating results. Birmingham brings the terror and devastation to life in a series of powerful chapters that are a model of disciplined scholarship and informed passion.

In this book, the author does not question an Angola in collapse, fragmentation or revolt. Through a skillful temporal articulation, the author, while taking us into the past of this country, does so with the aim of confronting us with a geopolitical area that has long been faced with the challenges of Western modernity. Eager and ready to dignify these challenges, individuals, social groups and various movements became involved, or found themselves involved, in the dynamics of a process of building Angola as a country. Among them, the prophetic and messianic movements, distrusting and simultaneously adhering to certain forms of this modernity, integrating and rejecting some of its traditions, helped to substantiate the idea of nationalism, in a construction that makes Angola a particular case not only in relation to Africa. that circumscribes it, but also to Africa under Portuguese colonization.

Work by José Redinha, a great Portuguese researcher and ethnologist. This book is a key piece in understanding the historical and social formation of the Angolan people and in reflecting on the place of ethnic cultures within the framework of globalization.

The first comprehensive account in English of how the Portuguese Armed Forces prepared for and conducted a distant counterinsurgency campaign in its African possessions with very limited resources, choosing to stay and fight despite the small odds for success. The Portuguese military crafted its doctrine and implemented it to match the guerrilla strategy of protracted war, and in doing so, followed the lessons gleaned from the British and French experiences in small wars. The Portuguese approach to the conflict was distinct in that it sought to combine the two-pronged national strategy of containing the cost of the war and of spreading the burden to the colonies with the solution on the battlefield. It describes how Portugal defined and analyzed its insurgency problem in light of the available knowledge on counterinsurgency, how it developed its military policies and doctrines in this context, and how it applied them in the African colonial environment. The uniqueness of its approach is highlighted through a thematic military analysis of the Portuguese effort and a comparison with the experiences of other governments fighting similar contemporaneous wars.

In "Guinea-Bissau: History, Cultures, Society and Literature", Odete Costa Semedo provides a historical, cultural and socio-political overview of Guinea-Bissau, from the period before its colonization to the present day. Published in 2011, the book emphasizes the presence of Guinea-Bissau's oral tradition and its importance to the culture of its people. According to her, "the voice and the word are the vehicle of tradition".

It is a work that has a narrative about certain ethnic groups after presenting the geography of the country, it also talks about the arrival of the Europeans (unfortunately with many dislocations, inaccuracies, untruths and even sudden jumps in the historical narrative) after a summary description of the armed struggle reveals what it is all about: it is an indictment of Nino Vieira's dictatorial regime.

Illustrated in the text with black and white photographs of the main rulers of the time and various aspects of the visit. Detailed reportage of the visit to Guinea Bissau by the President of the Republic, General Craveiro Lopes, which was the first time a Portuguese head of state had visited the territory.

This work is the result of a journalistic investigation sponsored by the State and the Army (authorized by Generals Arnaldo Schulz and Andrade e Silva), which allowed the author, a special envoy for Diário de Notícias, to travel without limitations to the fronts of combat in Guinea, Angola and Mozambique. The reports for Diário de Notícias took place between September 1965 and January 1966, accompanied by exceptional photographs of soldiers and the fighting in the three Portuguese colonies in Africa against FRELIMO, COREMO, FNLA, MPLA and PAIGC guerrillas. The collection of these reports later gave rise to this book, which is now a historical document. However, "the truth of the war", as this journalist wanted it to be conveyed, by creating a network or effective group of journalists who were war correspondents on all the fronts of the war and all the military operations, was not subsequently developed because the concept of total war that he suggested in this book (see pages 254-256) was soon abandoned by the military leadership in favor of a concept of counter-guerrilla operations.

The following brief notes are intended as a contribution to clarifying some of the varied and complex problems of the slave trade in the geographical area between the Senegal River and Sierra Leone between 1810 and 1850. They are based, on the one hand, on elements taken from various published documents and, on the other hand, on primary sources from the Cape Verde and Lisbon archives.

The Atlas of East Timor is a geographical approach to the current reality of this country. It is intended to be a complementary element to school textbooks and a general reference for a better knowledge of the territory, constituting the possible "portrait" of the first nation of the 21st century, which despite its small size, is very diverse.

East Timorese Legends and Fables are brief journeys into the imagination of the Timorese people that take us back to times when nature, animals and humans lived in harmony and communicated with each other.
This set of fables and legends is the result of work produced by Timorese teachers during a Portuguese language training course, taught by video conference, which linked the Open University in Lisbon to the Distance Learning Center in Dili.
It was out of the enthusiasm of these teachers and their reflection on the Portuguese language that these short stories emerged, which have been told orally in Tetum and other languages spoken in Timor since time immemorial.

The book entitled The Golden Eggs - Tales and Legends from East-Timor is the fifth published by Anabela Leal de Barros as part of her project to collect Timorese literature from the oral tradition, and Timorese Portuguese, which she has been working on since 2002, after Tales and Legends from East-Timor (2014; 2015); Rumando de Lés a Leste - Contos e Lendas de Oecusse (2017); O Galo do Oriente - Contos e Lendas de Timor-Leste (2018) and A Rainha da Lua - Contos e Lendas de Oecusse, Timor-Leste (2019).

Here we covered a wide range of topics, starting with the cultural, economic, social and political history of Timor, from the earliest times to the tragic events of 1975, passing through an analysis of the context in which the successive colonizations and decolonizations of Southeast Asia took place, and ending with a review of Indonesian governance.

Countries undergoing fundamental economic and political transformations might experience differential adjustments in material well-being and empowerment. Richter evaluates self-rated welfare and power changes in Timor-Leste covering the period prior to the 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia to the eve of independence in end 2001. Drawing on the first nationally representative household survey and village census, he shows how subjective, objective, and recall information can be combined to provide a rich profile of trends in well-being from the pre- to post-conflict stage. The author’s analysis shows that changes in self-rated welfare and power broadly corresponded to changes recorded by objective indicators. While economic well-being improved little, empowerment increased dramatically. The changes were not uniform across the population but some groups benefited more than others. The evidence for Timor-Leste is consistent with these hypotheses: • Economic resources increase welfare, and more than power. • Social resources increase power, and more than welfare. • Welfare winners have low initial economic resources. • Power winners have high social resources. • Economic shocks reduce welfare and power, but welfare more than power. This paper—a product of the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Sector Unit, East Asia and Pacific Region—is part of a larger effort in the region to promote economic research on small countries.

Selected as one of the six best nonfiction books of 1990 by the editors f the New York Times Book Review, this is a compelling and entertaining account of the author’s two-and-a-half year adventure in Equatorial Guinea, and his efforts to get this small bankrupt African nation on the path of structural development.

Two ethnologists make a pact with Carlos Moreira, a Cape Verdean engraver who lives in Lyon and is recognized in Europe as one of the guardians of an endangered art form. The former, always ready for unexpected encounters when asked to solve a riddle, sends the latter an emblematic postcard from each island they visit, describing an episode they experienced there, so that Carlos Moreira can get to know at least one characteristic of each of the other Cape Verde islands, since he only knows Santiago, the island where he was born. Skillfully combining travelogue and fiction, Jean-Yves Loude undertakes a passionate description of the archipelago's landscapes, mentalities, memory and culture in Cape Verde, addressing all the nuances of Cape Verdean identity in their fascinating diversity.

The primary goal of this study is to explore the question of the genesis and development of the Angolar Creole Portuguese of São Tomé and Príncipe (Gulf of Guinea), off the coast of West Africa. Angolar is the language spoken by descendants of maroon slaves who escaped from Portuguese plantations on São Tomé beginning in the mid-sixteenth century (1535-1550). Due to the isolation of these maroon communities, their language kept the general structure of Santomense Creole Portuguese, the majority creole spoken on the plantations. Communication between the Portuguese and slaves, and among the slaves themselves, must have been constrained by factors such as first languages (Portuguese as well as Kwa and Bantu languages), exposure to some form of contact Portuguese prior to their arrival of São Tomé (e.g. West African Pidgin Portuguese), their length of stay on the island and their social status (free Afro-Portuguese, houseslaves). Modern divergences between Angolar and Santomense are the outcome of the lexical expansion and further restructuring which Santomense underwent as the result of its closer contact with Portuguese spoken on the plantations as opposed to differences in grammar and pronunciation which Angolar retained from early Santomense.

An important research study on the process of colonization in the 15th to 17th centuries of the archipelago of São Tomé and Príncipe, this book by Isabel Castro Henriques is decisive in debunking colonial mythology and the dominant explanations of Portuguese historiography about this period.

From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. Yet this surprising capacity for survival has resulted, ironically, form the very weakness of the Portuguese presence. In particular, since the foundation of Hong Kong (in 1840), Macao had depended on a creative use of its marginality - as a centre for gambling, for the coolie trade, the opium trade, the semi-clandestine gold trade and so on. As a rear window on China, Macao provides us with fascinating examples of marginality that allow us to study the limits of the systems that characterize the Chinese world.

The very long history of Macau and of the Macanese people has many stories. This book tells more than forty of them, mostly about the Macanese people themselves. There are stories about institutions and buildings, about achievements and disasters.

These two volumes, entitled Pirates of the Macau Seas (1854-1935), make available to all social scientists and the general public a vast collection of documents held by the Macau Archives on a particularly important subject in Macau's political, economic and social history (20th and 20th centuries). With several hundred pages and more than 400 documents, these books are an invitation to new research projects on the subject of the "pirates of the Macau seas", building new knowledge about the history of Macau and Portugal-China relations.

The stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace the story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators to reach China in the sixteenth century to the events of more recent times. Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildings and thronged with traffic, unnoticed by almost all who pass, are the treasure-vaults of Macao's rich and colourful history. In the cool shadows of old churches, set into the walls of long-disused fortresses, and in tranquil and leafy gardens, lie the silent stone keys that unlock the secrets of Macao and its opulent and varied past. Lindsay and May Ride spent many years researching and documenting the oft-hidden stones of Macao. The result of their work is an opportunity for the stones of Macao themselves to tell of the rich and varied history of this tiny, unlikely place. Work on this book began in 1954, but was diverted for a long period so that restoration and research on the Old Protestant Cemetery could be completed. In an early stage of its development it was finally halted - or so it seemed at the time - by the death of Sir Lindsay Ride in October 1977. Now published in the year the four-century-old Portuguese adventure in Macao is finally to conclude, the stories recounted in The Voices of Macao Stones vividly bring to life the individuals, events and circumstances that have made Macao the unique place it is.

For centuries the island gardens of Madeira were at the crossroads of the world: as a halfway house between the tropics and the old continent, Madeira received plants from far-flung empires and accommodated ideas from both north and south. Its streets and squares are filled with magnificent jacarandas, flame-trees, and rosewoods, while its waterways are covered by trellises of bougainvillea. This book opens with an introduction describing the discovery and development of the island and its earliest gardens, the role of Portuguese aristocrats and British wine merchants in creating the country estates known as quintas, and the extensive travel literature of early tourists. The book then delivers essential background information on how the climate and landscape of Madeira have allowed the island's unique flora to flourish. The gardens themselves are divided according to type, public or private, historic or modern, and all 24 are in or around the capital, Funchal. A few non-garden areas have been included to introduce the wild flora and landscape of Madeira, certainly of interest to garden lovers.

It is from the settlement of Madeira that the Portuguese expansion is seen, both in political-administrative terms, in the division of the archipelago into three captaincies, and in the economic activity distributed across the three sectors. In the primary sector there was the cultivation of wheat and then sugar cane, with the predominant transformation of this raw material into the lucrative sugar, which made Madeira the sought-after and disputed land in the following centuries. In the secondary sector, heather and dragon's blood were used for dyeing. Thus began a flourishing trade from which the Portuguese crown received rents for the installation of Funchal's customs house, the main concern of the great promoter of the city of Funchal, the Duke of Beja, D. Manuel, who was to become King Manuel I. In his plan, he also included the town hall and the "big church", the future cathedral, which was located on the Duke's grounds. It was also during this period that the first misericórdias appeared in the island's main towns.
In the settlement of a Portuguese land, the religious element is preponderant and it was the Order of St. Francis that accompanied Zarco's venture from the outset, when they anchored in the same bay on July 2, 1420, according to the author's version based on Francisco Alcoforado's A Relação. This chronicler also describes the story of Machim and Ana de Arfet, believed to be the legend behind Zargo's first voyage to Madeira.
The designation Matriz da Expansão Portuguesa was confirmed in the following century with the division of Brazil into nine captaincies, the success of the sugar cane plantations and the specialized workforce that left Madeira for the mills in the Atlantic area. This new reality led to the emergence of another successful product, wine. This seduced another of the chroniclers behind this volume on the History of Madeira, the Genoese navigator and merchant Luís de Cadamosto, who lived on the island at the end of the 15th century.

"When the lookout gives the signal, the rocket shoots into the air and 'Baleia! Baleia!' is shouted from house to house; within minutes the whaleboats are manned, launched and heading for the open sea. This is the scene when a whale is sighted at Horta, on the island of Fayal in the Azores, the only place [at the time of publication] from which the sperm whale is still hunted with the hand harpoon in small open boats, with only oars and sails and paddles, as it has been almost continuously since the first whaleboats crossed the Atlantic from Nantucket in 1765... The climax of the urgency pervading this book is the hunt itself, and the author gives an enthralling account of how the struggle, far out to sea, is brought silently and desperately to a finish, before the whale is towed home for the final cutting-in, the trying-out, and all the complex operations of the factory. Mr Venables follows every move in highly technical detail, and his descriptions of the hunt and kill have a gruesome reality." Many good illustrations by Bernard Venables, rather in the manner - appropriately enough - of those by Tunnicliffe and Sheppard in The Old Man and The Sea.