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Publication Date: 1945
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Text extracted from opening pages of book: BRAZIL AN INTERPRETATION BY GILBERTO FREYRE NEW YORK : ALFRED A. KNOPF 1945 GXILIBRIS CONTENTS PREFACE v i. THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND OF BRAZILIAN HISTORY i ii. FRONTIER AND PLANTATION IN BRAZIL 35 in. BRAZILIAN UNITY AND BRAZILIAN REGIONAL DIVERSITY 66 iv. ETHNIC AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS IN MODERN BRAZIL 91 v. BRAZILIAN FOREIGN POLICY AS CONDI TIONED BY BRAZIL'S ETHNIC, CULTURAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL SITUATION 123 vi. THE MODERN LITERATURE OF BRAZIL: ITS RELATION TO BRAZILIAN SOCIAL PROBLEMS 155 INDEX follows page 179 PREFACE These lectures were delivered on the Patten Foun dation at Indiana University during the autumn of 1944. As in my previous essays and lectures on the social history of Brazil, published in Portuguese, Spanish, and English, the point of view is that of one r who at tempts to suggest a philosophy of Brazilian ethnic and social fusionism not the point of vie e w of rig idly impartial historians or sociologists, if such his torians and sociologists really exist. As a f work of interpretation or synthesis, prepared especially for an Anglo-American public, these lec tures are based on the various monographs that the author has ^ written on the subject. In these monographs, particularly in Casa Grande & Senzala, published in Portuguese and Spanish and soon forth coming in English, the reader ' will find a more detailed presentation of a Tiumber of the topics here discussed and also fuller bibliographies. 1 thank the authorities of Indiana University for their invitation to me to be the fatten Lecturer for . I shall long remember the courtesies received vi PREFACE pom President Herman B Wells, from the trustees, members of the faculty, arid students, and especially from Professors Clelmd, Mueller, Rey, Laurent, Tomasid, Winther, and EngeL In particular, I should like to mention how Tnuch I r was helped in the prep aration of the manuscript of these lectures for the press by my friend Professor Laurens /. Mills of the English Department. Many thanks are due also to Miss Ruth Anderson for her patient ' work as a typist* G. F. Bioomlngton November, 1944 I THE EUROPEAN BACKGROUND OF BRAZILIAN HISTORY JDRAZIL, which was discovered and colonized by the Portuguese, is sometimes called Portuguese America. As Portuguese America it is generally considered an ex tension of Europe, and in its main characteristics it remains Portuguese and Hispanic, or Iberian. It is also Catholic, or a branch or variant of the Latin form of Christianity or civilization. But the facts that its origins are mainly Portuguese or Hispanic and that its principal characteristics are Latin Catholic do not make of Brazil so simple or pure an extension of Europe as New England was of old England and as New England was of Protestant or Evangelical Christianity in North America. For, as everyone knows, Spain and Portugal, though conven tionally European . states, are not orthodox in all their European and Christian qualities, experiences, and con ditions of life, but are in many important respects a mixture of Europe and Africa, of Christianity and Mo hammedanism. According to geographers the Hispanic peninsula is a transition zone between two continents; it is a popular saying that Africa begins in the Pyrenees a saying sometimes used sarcastically by Nordics. i 2 BRAZIL: AN INTERPRETATION For eight centuries the Hispanic, or Iberian, penin sula was dominated by Africans. Arabs and Moors left their trace there. Though some of the modern Spanish and Portuguese thinkers ( like Unamuno) would have Spain and Portugal Europeanized with all speed, others ( like Ganivet) maintain that Spain and Portugal must look south, to Africa, for their future and for the ex planation of their ethos. The same conflict of opinion is to be found among foreign students of Hispanic so cial history and cultural problems: some the German, Schulten, for instance believe that one of the tasks of modern Europe should be to definitely annex Spain
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