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Brand: University of California Press, 0000-00-00. 2 revised. paperback. Used: Good.

NY:: Knopf,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. Seventh printing of the second English-language edition, revised. Remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good in a very good (age toning) dust jacket. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 2nd English language edn. Tall 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at head of spine - otherwise VG in protective cover, price clipped). Pp. lxx + 537 + xliv, illus with b&w plates, maps and drawings (previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down; endpapers with tape marks at edges).

New York: Knopf, 1946. First American Edition". Hardcover. Very good(+) in about very good price-clipped jacket in archival mylar./Very Good. Quarto in light grey jacket; lxix, 537, xliv pages: plans ; 25 cm; bibliographical references (pages 501-537), index. Translated from the Portuguese original. Contents: General characteristics of the Portuguese colonization of Brazil: formation of an agrarian, slave-holding and hybrid society -- The native in the formation of the Brazilian family -- The Portuguese colonizer: antecedents and predispositions -- The Negro slave in the sexual and family life of the Brazilian -- The Negro slave in the sexual and family life of the Brazilian (continued). Freyre, Gilberto, 1900-1987. Putnam, Samuel, 1892-1950, translator. Black people -- Brazil -- History. Indians of South America -- Brazil -- History. Families -- Brazil -- History. Slavery -- Brazil. Indians of South America -- Brazil. Esclavage -- Brésil. Personnes noires -- Brésil. Indiens d'Amérique --… Read More

Univ of California Pr. Used - Very Good. May have light to moderate shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Some rubbing. Spine crease. Binding corner bump. VG. 2pp. plans Historical Sociology Knopf New York 1956 2nd Edition. orig. cloth 25x16cm, lxxi,537,xliv?, Several pages bear pencilled notes & underlinings. 2nd English-language edition, revised. Translated from the Portuguese by Samuel Putnam. Contents: General Characteristics of the Portuguese Colonization of Brazil: Formation of an Agrarian, Slave-Holding and Hybrid Society; The Native in the Formation of the Brazilian Family; The Portuguese Colonizer: Antecedents and Predispositions; The Negro Slave in the Sexual and Family Life of the Brazilian.

Brand: University of California Press, 0000-00-00. 2 revised. paperback. Used:Good.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. Second English Language Edition, Revised. Presumed first printing thus. Hardcover. Good. lxxi, [1], 537, [1], xliv, [4] pages. Illustrations (including fold-out). Footnotes. Preface to the First English-Language Edition. Preface to the Second English-Language Edition. Translator's Acknowledgments. Plans showing Big House of the Noruega Plantation. Glossary of Brazilian Terms Used. Bibliography. Index of Names. Index of Subjects. Gilberto de Mello Freyre KBE (March 15, 1900 - July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman, born in Recife, Pernambuco, Northeast Brazil. He is commonly associated with other major Brazilian cultural interpreters of the first half of the 20th century, such as Sérgio Buarque de Holanda and Caio Prado Júnior. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (literally, "The main house and the slave quarters," as on a traditional plantation,… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. A fine, handsome example in attractive red contemporary half calf. . Edition: First American Edition, Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled boards. Decorative gilt ruling at joints. Spine in five compartments of raised bands, black morocco labels with gilt titles on two and four. Marbled pasted and free end papers. , Notes: Published in 1933, Casa-Grande e Senzala (English: The Masters and the Slaves) is a book by Gilberto Freyre, about the formation of the Brazilian society. The \"Casa-Grande\" (big house) refers to the landlords residences in sugar plantations, where whole towns were owned and managed by one man. The \"Senzala\" refers to the dwelling of the Black working class, where they originally worked as slaves, and later as servants. In Freyre\'s opinion, the architecture of the Casa-Grande, was an expression of a patriarchal society. In this book the author refutes the idea that Brazil would have an \"inferior race\" because of race-mixing. He points… Read More