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Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: The Oliveira Lima Library charts the development of Latin America's most influential power with unique primary source materials of value to researchers and educators in Latin American history and Latin American literature. As a wide-ranging resource for Brazilian history and Portuguese history, this archive covers a diverse range of topics including colonialism, the Brazilian independence period, slavery and abolition, the Catholic Church, indigenous peoples, immigration, ecology, agriculture, economic development, medicine and public health, international relations, and Brazilian and Portuguese literature.

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Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Pamphlets brings together over 80,000 pages of pamphlets covering Brazilian and Portuguese history, politics, technology, social happenings, and culture from 1800 to the late twentieth century.

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs

Brazilian and Portuguese History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library, Monographs brings together approximately one million pages of monographs covering Brazilian and Portuguese history, indigenous peoples, international relations, ecology, economic development, medicine and public health, literature, and more from the mid-sixteenth to twentieth centuries.

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