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Propagandists of the Book
Pedro Feitoza traces the history of Protestantism in Brazil through an analysis of the production and circulation of evangelical texts. Examining a wide range of periodicals, tracts, correspondence, and other archival records and delving into the ideology of religious thinkers and evangelists of the time, Feitoza considers how Protestant veneration of the written word led to a complex infrastructure for the distribution of religious texts and the fostering of literacy in Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The United States’ Residual Hegemony
This book investigates the hegemony of the USA by examining the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations’ responses to major global crises. Combining a Gramscian framework with the main features of complexity theory it provides a comprehensive account of the systemic crisis of the hegemonic order of the United States in security, environmental, and economic issue-areas. By examining key case studies, the author reveals that the hegemonic responses of the US were confronted by overt challenges, including emerging state and non-state actors, globally complex transnational flows, and a combative domestic political climate which undermined the United States’ role in multilateral institutions no longer fit for purpose. This book will be of interest to general readers as well as scholars and students of US foreign policy, global politics, and Gramscian theory.
Shifting the Meaning of Democracy
This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of “racial democracy” as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality.
Creating the Post-Soviet Russian Market Economy
This book captures the essence of the period when Russians and Americans collaborated in creating new structures of government and new businesses in completely uncharted conditions. It presents the experiences of key American participants in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia during a time when Americans thought anything was possible in Russia. Using an analytic framework of foreground ideas (Western, liberal, and neo-liberal) and background forces (Russian cultural influences, nationalism, and lingering Soviet ideology), it examines the ideas and intentions of the people involved. First-person interviews with consultants, businesspeople, and citizen diplomats help capture the essence of this turbulent reform period through the eyes of those who experienced it and present the importance of this experience as a piece of the puzzle in understanding contemporary Russia. It will be an invaluable resource for students of international relations, Russian Studies majors, researchers, and members of the general public who are trying to understand the evolution of the current antagonism between the United States and Russia.
State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners
State Violence, Torture, and Political Prisoners discusses the activities of Amnesty International during the period of Brazil’s dictatorship (1964–1985). During the dictatorship, Amnesty assisted political prisoners who were submitted to torture and helped to publicise charges of torture against agents of the military regime’s repressive apparatus. Through a specific examination of Amnesty’s work with Brazilian political prisoners, this book explores how Amnesty adapted its organisational principles – such as non-violence and the focus on individual cases – during this time. In 1967 Amnesty experienced a severe internal crisis which prompted the organisation to make structural c...
Law and renewable energy
Discussing the right of Renewable Energies is to ensure the possibility of sustainable development, by a path different from that taken by the great central nations. Academics from China and Brazil lend themselves, through this cooperation, to the production of knowledge that serves as a basis for an adequate regulation of the matter, taking into account the international law for people’s development and the common principles of environmental protection added to the social protection and improvement of institutions plus the control of planned actions regarding the execution and implementation of this new energy matrix. Law is a language that makes it possible, in addition to esolving possible conflicts, to guide and put into practice concrete actions in the sense of expanding possibilities for the good use of renewable energies.
O escolhido
Baker é um presidente visto como um homem seguro capaz de conduzir um mundo a um futuro melhor. Maggie Costello, ex-conselheira da Presidência, assim como boa parte dos americanos, deposita toda a sua confiança em Baker. Vic Forbes, inimigo do presidente, surge de forma inesperada e revela dois segredos sobre Baker. A nação que tanto acredita em Baker exige explicações do presidente. Um dia após Forbes dizer que fará uma terceira revolução, ele aparece morto em condições muito suspeitas. Poderia o líder idolatrado por todos estar envolvido no assassinato? Ou o crime faria parte de uma trama para derrubar o presidente? Será que toda a população teria sido enganada pelos ideai...
Tríptico
Um assassino cruel e frio está aterrorizando Atlanta. Atacando jovens, velhos, ricos ou pobres, nos subúrbios chiques ou nos conjuntos habitacionais, ele parece não ter nenhuma fronteira. Os detetives que investigam o caso talvez precisem não ter barreiras também para encontrá-lo. Entre eles está o veterano detetive Michael Ormewood – cujo casamento está por um fio e cuja arrogância está ameaçando sua carreira — e Angie Polaski, uma linda policial de narcóticos, que foi amante de Michael antes de se tornar sua maior inimiga. Para surpresa de ambos, a chave para resolver o caso pode estar nas mãos de um ex-condenado, que se depara com o rastro do assassino.
Darien (Vol. 1 Império de Sal)
Na noite em que seis indivíduos se cruzam em Darien, caos e fogo se espalham. Sob a magia da cidade, todos estão prestes a descobrir que o destino pode ser implacável. Do mestre da ficção histórica Conn Iggulden, Darien é o primeiro volume da trilogia Império de Sal. Elias Post, um homem com um dom incrível, e Vic Deeds, um soldado ganancioso. Tellius, um velho estrangeiro, e Arthur, um menino que não é o que aparenta ser. Daw Threefold, um rapaz adepto da magia, e Nancy, uma jovem que não acredita nesse tipo de coisa, mas que possui o poder da destruição. Todos se encontram na cidade de Darien, que antes era parte do Império de Sal e agora é governada e protegida por doze fa...
