Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954 080782691x, 0807853593

For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public me

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Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954
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Anthropologist John F. Collins explores shifts in racial identification in Brazil by examining the transformation of a c

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Following World War II, Japan's postwar constitution forbade the country to wage war or create an army. However, wi

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From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized

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This is the first ever English-language study of the war which established Japan's image as a warrior nation, an im

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In many states in the developing world, tensions between the armed forces and a civilian government have sometimes led t

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Despite the recent explosion of scholarly interest in “star studies,” Brazilian film has received comparatively little a

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Brazilian-African Diaspora in Ghana is a fresh approach, challenging both pre-existing and established notions of the Af

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"This book is the result of a field research carried out by the author among a community of agriculturists in what

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