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The United States and Brazil : limits of influence by Wesson, Robert G.

Subjects: “…United States Foreign relations Brazil.…”

Diplomatic relations between the United States and Brazil by Hill, Lawrence F. (Lawrence Francis), 1888-1974

Subjects: “…United States Foreign relations Brazil.…”

Freedom and prejudice : the legacy of slavery in the United States and Brazil by Toplin, Robert Brent, 1940-

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Neither Black nor white; slavery and race relations in Brazil and the United States by Degler, Carl N.

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Barriers and opportunities for U.S. hydropower industry engagement in Brazil and Argentina by Wadsack, Karin

Subjects: “…Water-power Brazil.…”
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The unwritten alliance: Rio-Branco and Brazilian-American relations by Burns, E. Bradford

Subjects: “…United States Foreign relations Brazil.…”

The denial of antiblackness : multiracial redemption and Black suffering by Vargas, João Helion Costa

Contents: “…Growing Up in Prisons -- Stanzas of Oppression and Hope : Voices of Incarcerated Black and Latino Boys -- Negotiating Quotidian Violence and Uncertain Futures : Narratives from Black and Latina Girls -- Part II. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : Empire-State Terror and Apartheid. Reclaiming Public Space : Rolezinhos as Protest -- The Pacifying Police : Security through Brutality -- Part III. …”

Writing of textbook for intermediate-advanced Portuguese, communicative competence in Portuguese = competencia comunicativa em Portugues by Paiva, Ricardo

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Beyond bondage : free women of color in the Americas

Contents: “…Free women of color in Central Brazil, 1779-1832 /…”
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The new race question : how the census counts multiracial individuals by Jerome Levy Economics Institute

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The Metaphysical Club 1st ed. by Menand, Louis

Contents: “…The politics of slavery -- The abolitionist -- The wilderness and after -- The man of two minds -- Agassiz -- Brazil -- The Peirces -- The law of errors -- The metaphysical club -- Burlington -- Baltimore -- Chicago -- Pragmatisms -- Pluralisms -- Freedoms.…”

This vast southern empire : slaveholders at the helm of American foreign policy by Karp, Matthew, 1981-

Contents: “…Introduction: The world the slaveholders craved -- Confronting the great apostle of emancipation -- The strongest naval power on earth -- A hemispheric defense of slavery -- Slavery's dominoes: Brazil and Texas -- The young Hercules of America -- King cotton, Emperor slavery -- Slaveholding visions of modernity -- Foreign policy amid domestic crisis -- The military South -- American slavery, global power -- Epilogue: the rod of empire.…”

A long and terrible shadow : white values, native rights in the Americas since 1492 2nd pbk. ed. by Berger, Thomas R.

Contents: “…Las Casas and the rights of the indians -- The debate at Valladolid -- Disease and death -- Indian slavery: Brazil and the Carolinas -- Indians as allies: the Iroquois -- John Marshall and the indians -- Wars against the Indians: the United States and Argentina -- Reserves, reservations and reducciones -- Guatemala: rebirth of the black legend -- The last redoubt: the survival of subsistence -- Native claims and the rule of law.…”

The European discovery of America by Morison, Samuel Eliot, 1887-1976

Contents: “…France and Portugal in Brazil, 1504-1568. Back to the Strait, 1534-1558. …”

Prognostics and health management of wind turbines : current status and future opportunities by Sheng, S. (Shuangwen)

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Inhuman bondage : the rise and fall of slavery in the New World by Davis, David Brion

Contents: “…The Amistad test of law and justice -- The ancient foundations of modern slavery -- The origins of anti-Black racism in the New World -- How Africans became integral to New World history -- The Atlantic slave system : Brazil and the Caribbean -- Slavery in Colonial North America -- The problem of slavery in the American Revolution -- The impact of the French and Haitian revolutions -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century South I : from contradiction to defense -- Slavery in the nineteenth-century south II -- Some nineteenth-century slave conspiracies and revolts -- Explanations of British abolitionism -- Abolitionism in America -- The politics of slavery in the United States -- The Civil War and slave emancipation.…”
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Marine hydrokinetic turbine power-take-off design for optimal performance and low impact on cost-of-energy preprint by Pennsylvania State University, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.), RE Vision Consulting

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Options for resilient and flexible power systems in select South American economies by Campos do Prado, Josue, Logan, Jeffrey (Analyst), Flores-Espino, Francisco

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Acculturation in the Americas : proceedings and selected papers of the XXIXth International Congress of Americanists by International Congress of Americanists New York, N.Y.

Contents: “…Bascom -- Land tenure in the Marbial region of Haiti / Suzanne Comhaire-Sylvain -- Some aspects of hierarchical structure in Haitit / Rhoda Metraux -- Le Batuque de Porto-Alegre / Roger Bastide -- African influence on the music of the Americas / Richard Alan Waterman -- Modern cultural development and synthesis in Latin America / John Gillin -- The folk culture of the Brazilian Amazon / Charles Wagley -- Caboclo cultures of Southern Brazil / Emilio Willems -- Indian adjustments to modern national culture / Antonio Goubaud Carrera -- Historical aspects of the Canadian Métis / John Perry Pritchett -- The modern Latin American city / Theodore Caplow -- On the identification of the Indian in Peru / Harry Tschopik, Jr. -- Poblacion indo-mestiza / Manuel Gamio -- An analysis of modern Middle American calendars / Suzanna W. …”

Years of renewal by Kissinger, Henry, 1923-2023

Contents: “…Panama, Mexico, and the "New Dialogue" ; Brazil, Chile, and western hemisphere unity ; Cuban interlude -- Relations with the communist world. …”
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