English, Irish and Irish-American Pioneer Settlers in Nineteenth-Century Brazil - Softcover

Marshall, Oliver

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0954407040 ISBN 13: 9780954407049

Publisher: Centre for Brazilian Studies, 2005

Synopsis

Brazil is not usually associated with British agricultural immigrants, but in the late 1860s and early 1870s great efforts were made to stimulate interest in the country. An idealized image of Brazil was created to help persuade dissatisfied Irish and English to pack up and join settlement schemes in a country that they had previously known nothing about. This book offers a vivid picture of this migration process and new insights into linkages between Ireland, England, the United States and Brazil. Focusing on the lives of individual immigrants, this is one of the most detailed studies of life in the Brazilian government's isolated and under-funded agricultural settlement schemes.

About this title

About the Author:

David Cleary is an anthropologist by trade and first went to Brazil in1984 and has since lived there off and on for six years. Dilwyn Jenkinshas been travelling to South America since the age of eighteen. Afterworking as a teacher and journalist, he has led expeditions to and madefilms with indigenous groups in the Amazon. He is also the author of "The Rough Guide to Peru". Oliver Marshall has been visiting Brazil forwork, study and, above all, pleasure since 1982. He is currentlyworking at the University of Oxford''s Centre for Brazilian Studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Centre for Brazilian Studies
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0954407040
• ISBN 13: 9780954407049
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336