Favelas of Rio de Janeiro have been historically elaborated as deforestation, risk areas, poverty and violence, problems that affect 'the marvellous city'. Through history therefore, these were the meanings imposed to ...

This thesis is a biography of Cardinal Don Avelar Brandão Vilela (b.1912 - d. 1986). This prelate stood out in the religious and political stages of Brazil and Latin America during middle and late 20th century. The archbishop ...

This paper deals with the issues of access to the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil´s collection, addressing their conservation policies and digital dissemination. It presents impacts ...

Information has assumed increasing importance in contemporary society, in which it is admittedly associated with economic and cultural power, which helps to understand, in general terms, how the information entity has ...

Este trabalho procura iluminar, a partir da coleção de indumentária do acervo do Museu Casa da Hera, localizado na cidade de Vassouras, interior do estado do Rio de Janeiro, formas de apropriação e interpretação do vestuário ...

Fabiane Popinigis é professora adjunta do Departamento de História e do Programa de Pós-graduação em História da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (PPGH/UFRRJ). Possui graduação, mestrado e doutorado em História ...

Edson de Oliveira Nunes é Ph.D. em Ciência Política, U.C. Berkeley e Coordenador do Observatório Universitário. Também é Presidente do Conselho de Administração do IBAM, autor de livros e artigos na área de Ciências Sociais ...

This article seeks to understand how the traveller and naturalist Auguste de Saint-Hilaire characterized the American people and tried to incorporate them to the 'civilized' societies at the beginning of the XIX century. ...

Through a bibliographic discussion, this paper outlines some aspects of state-building in Brazil and relates them with the institutionalization of a legal apparatus of 'protection' and of control of the native population, ...

The paper tells the creation and development of Parachute Infantry Brigade, a Brazilian Armytroops. It describes the history, actions and some of the main characters present at thefundacion of the paratroopers in Brazil, ...