Marshall C Eakin: 2 books
A British Enterprise in Brazil
The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1960
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Marshall Eakin presents what may be the most detailed study ever written about the operations of a foreign business in Latin America and the first scholarly, book-length study of any foreign business enterprise in Brazil. Between 1830 and 1970 the British-owned St. John d’el Rey Mining Company,...
Becoming Brazilians
Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become...