Author: FREYRE, Gilberto:
Title: The masters and the slaves. A study in development of Brazilian civilization. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. 2nd English edition, revised.
Description: New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956, gr. in-8°, LXXII + 538 p. + XLIV (44), original green cloth binding. ¶ These are the five chapters of this most interesting work: 1) General characteristics of the Portuguese colonization of Brazil: formation of an agrarian, slave-holding and hybrid society. 2) The native in the formation of the brazilian family. 3) The Portuguese colonizer: antecedents and predispositions. 4 and 5) The negro slave in the sexual and family life of the Brazilian. With a large bibliography. Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage.

Keywords: cultural history hist-culturelle Brasil Brésil history histoire America Amérique, America, Amerika colonialisation colonisation ethnology ethnologie slavery, slaves, slave esclaves sociology sociologie travel, exploration voyage