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Sixty Acres and a Barn

Edited By Frank F. Sousa, Donald Warrin

2012 | Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth
Copy Available: Yes

A western, agrarian novel that conjures the world of the small dairy farms of California and the Portuguese immigrants who worked them

Sixty Acres and a Barn tells the captivating coming-of-age story of Luis Sar ...

 
 
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Os Passos da Glória

By Manuel de Queiroz

2008 | Bertrand
Copy Available: Yes

Aleixo de Queiroz Ribeiro, Conde de Santa Eulália, um escultor português com um percurso profissional e pessoal notável, no fim do Séc. XIX, princípios do Sec. XX, dividido entre lugares tão distintos como Paris, Lisboa, Sófia, Adis Abeba, Chicago, F ...
 
 
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Identity and Difference: Postcoloniality and Transnationality in Lusophone Films

By Carolin Overhoff Ferreira

2012 | Reihe: Filmwissenschaft
Copy Available: No

The Carnation Revolution in 1974 ended Portugal’s dictatorship and empire and opened up a new chapter in film history. Besides national productions, transnational films that result from agreements with the ex-colonies Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guin ...
 
 
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Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, vol. 1: The Making of the Luso-Asian World: Intricacies of Engagement

Edited By Laura Jarnagin

2011 | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Copy Available: No

“In 1511, a Portuguese expedition under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque arrived on the shores of Malacca, taking control of the prosperous Malayan port-city after a swift military campaign. Portugal, a peripheral but then technologically adva ...

 
 
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The Capelinhos Eruption: Window of Opportunity for Azorean Emigration

By Daniel Marcos

2008 | Gavea Brown
Copy Available: Yes

In 1957-58, the Capelinhos volcanic eruption in Fayal, Azores, disrupted the lives of the island's residents. The Azorean-American communities, of Rhode Island and Massachusetts particularly, rushed to assist the displaced islanders through local pol ...
 
 
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Tony: A New England Boyhood

By Charles Reis Felix

2008 | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Tagus Press
Copy Available: Yes

Tony: A New England Boyhood by Charles Reis Felix is an autobiographical novel about growing up in Gaw (New Bedford), Massachusetts in the 1930s much in the same way that Thomas Bailey Aldrich's celebrated boyhood novel, The Story of a B ...
 
 
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So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927

By Donald Warrin

2010 | Tagus Press - The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Copy Available: Yes

So Ends This Day: The Portuguese in American Whaling, 1765-1927 traces the history of the American whaling industry from its seventeenth-century beginnings in Massachusetts and Long Island to its demise in the third decade of the twentieth century, w ...
 
 

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Edited By Francisco Bethencourt, Adrian Pearce

2012 | Oxford University Press
Copy Available: No

  • Comprehensive overview of racism and ethnic relations throughout Portuguese-speaking world
  • Radical updating - last overview was published in 1963 ...
 
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