Portugal and Brazil in Transition

(Paperback)

Publishing Details

Classifications

Physical Properties

Description

Portugal and Brazil in Transition was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture, this book pre

Author Bio

Raymond S. Sayers, the editor, was a professor of Romance languages at Queens College of the City University of New York and senior lecturer in Portuguese at Columbia University. In an introduction, he points out: Both Portugal and Brazil have been active contributors to and participants in Occidental culture, and so the present and future conditions of all aspects of their culture should e interesting to other nations. Professor Franca states in his essay on urbanization in Lisbon that in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the other European nations were ignorant of the lessons in city planning that the Portuguese were forced to learn after the earthquake, but such ignorance should not exist today.