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Brazilian Travel Literature - List of travelogues recommended by Lonely Planet 

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Bibliography

Anderson, Robert Nelson. “”The Quilombo of Palmares: A New Overview of a Maroon State in Seventeenth-Century Brazil.”,” Journal of Latin American Studies, 28 (1996).

de Carvalho, Aline Viera. “Archeological Perspectives of Palmares: A Maroon Settlement in 17^th Century Brazil”. The African Diaspora Archaeology Network.March 2007. http://www.diaspora.illinois.edu/news0307/news0307-5.pdf. Accessed 24 November 2013.

Cleary, D. (1998). “Lost altogether to the civilised world”: Race and the Cabanagem in northern Brazil, 1750 to 1850.Comparative Studies in Society and History, 40(1), 109-135

Cleaver, H. 1988. “From Development to Autonomy.” University of Texas. https://webspace.utexas.edu/hcleaver/www/devauta.html. Accessed 23 November 2013.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. Children of God’s Fire. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985.

Dykeman, Katherine. 2004. “Racial Inequality in Brazil”. Elon International Studies Brazil. http://org.elon.edu/brazilmagazine/2005/article10.htm. Accessed 1 December 2013.

Ennes, Ernesto. As gueras nos palmares:The Conquest of Palmares. Sao Paulo: Compania Editorial Nacional, 1938.

Foweraker, J. (1995). Theorizing social movements. Boulder: Pluto Press.

Funari, Pedro Paulo A. “Conflict and the Interpretation of Palmares, a Brazilian Runaway Polity.” Society for Historical Archeology 37 (2003).

Genovese, E. D., 1930-2012. (1992). From rebellion to revolution : Afro-american slave revolts in the making of the modern world. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. (Preface)

Joao Jose, Gomes and dos Santos, Flavio. “Quilombo: Brazilian Maroons During Slavery.” Cultural Survival Quarterly 25.4. (2001). http://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/quilombo-brazilian-maroons-during-slavery. Accessed 15 November 2013.

Kent, R.K. “Palmares: An African State in Brazil.” The Journal of African History 6 (1965).

Nascimento, A. D. (1980). Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian political alternative. Journal of Black Studies, 11(2, Afro-Brazilian Experience and Proposals for Social Change), 141-178.

Quijano, Anibal “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism and Latin America”. Nepantla: Views from the South 1, no. 3 (2000)

Reyes, A., & Kaufman, M. (2011). “Sovereignty, indigeneity, territory: Zapatista autonomy and the new practices of decolonization.” South Atlantic Quarterly, 110(2), 505-525.

Schwartz, S.B. (1992). Rethinking Palmares: Slave resistance in Colonial Brazil. In Schwartz, S.B., Slaves, Peasants and Rebels. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

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Chilcote, Ronald H. Brazil and Its Radical Left: An Annotated Bibliography on the Communist Movement and the Rise of Marxism, 1922-1972. Millwood, N.Y: Kraus International Publications, 1980. Print.

Dutra, Francis A. A Guide to the History of Brazil, 1500-1822: The Literature in English. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-Clio, 1980. Print.

Levine, Robert M. Brazil, 1822-1930: An Annotated Bibliography for Social Historians. New York: Garland Pub, 1983. Print.

Levine, Robert M. Brazil Since 1930: An Annotated Bibliography for Social Historians. New York: Garland Pub, 1980. Print.

Moraes, Rubens B. Bibliographia Brasiliana: A Bibliographical Essay on Rare Books About Brazil Published from 1504 to 1900, and Works of Brazilian Authors Published Abroad Before the Independence of Brazil in 1822. Amsterdam: Colibris Editora, 1958. Print.

Precolonial Period 

Colonial/Imperial Period (1500-1889)

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• BETHELL, Leslie (1970). The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade/Britain, Brazil and the Slave Trade Question (1807-1869). Cambridge: CUP.
• BETHELL, Leslie (ed., 1991). Colonial Brazil. Cambridge: CUP.
• BOXER, Charles (1995, new revised edition). The Golden Age of Brazil/Growing Pains of a Colonial Society (1965-1750). Manchester: Carcanet Press Limited.
• FREYRE, Gilberto (1946). The Master and the Slaves/A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. New York: 
• GRAHAN, Richard (1968). Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil (1850- 1914). Cambridge: CUP.
• MANCHESTER, Alan K. (1972, new revised edition; original first published in 1933). British Preeminence in Brazil/Its Rise and Decline/A Study in European Expansion. New York: Octagon Books.

Republic of Brazil (1889-1930)

Populism and Development (1930-1964)

   Bethell, Leslie. Brazil Since 1930. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Print.

Military Dictatorship (1964-1985)

Redemocratization (1985-present day) 

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