Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian, a journalist, a cultural critic, a deputy in the Brazilian Assembly, a novelist, poet, and artist. He was a cultural critic, with a good deal to say about archit[...]
In this innovative volume, Maria Lucia Pallares--Burke examines the nature of the so--called a new historya . In conversation with nine leading scholars associated with the movement, Pallares--Burke investigates the new approaches to the writing of history. In a series of interviews, Asa Briggs, Pet[...]