RIO BRANCO

city (1996 pop. 228,907), capital of Acre state, NW Brazil, on the Acre River. Rubber and Brazil nuts are its chief products; there is also some farming. Rio Branco has air connections with the major cities of Brazil, but river travel is still an important means of transportation. Rio Branco was built on the site of a former rubber plantation. It has a university.

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books on: Rio Branco  - 528 results

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The Unwritten Alliance: Rio-Branco and Brazilian-American Relations
Book by E. Bradford Burns; Columbia University Press, 1966
Subjects: Brazil--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Brazil
...American Studies Columbia University The Baron of Rio-Branco THE UNWRITTEN ALLIANCE RIO-BRANCO AND BRAZILIAN-AMERICAN RELATIONS E. BRADFORD...one of the principal aims of the Baron of Rio-Branco, the Minister of Foreign Relations from 1902...
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Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City
Book by Thomas H. Holloway; Stanford University Press, 1993
Subjects: Police--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro--History--19th Century
Policing Rio de Janeiro A POLICEMAN. Permanente. Thomas H. Holloway POLICING Rio de Janeiro Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century...a collection by the Ludwig and Briggs studio in Rio de Janeiro, 1846-49. From Briggs, The Brasilian...
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Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Saao Paulo, Brazil, 1945-1988
Book by Michael George Hanchard; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects: Blacks--Race Identity--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Blacks--Race Identity--Brazil--Sao Paulo, Brazil--Politics And Government--20th Century, Brazil--Race Relations
...AND POWER THE MOVIMENTO NEGRO OF RIO DE JANEIRO AND SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 1945...ORPHEUS AND POWER: THE MOVIMENTO NEGRO OF RIO DE JANEIRO AND SAO PAULO, BRAZIL, 1945...Suzanne Colwell. Thanks to all three. In Rio, Januario Garcia generously allowed me to...
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Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
Book by Donna M. Goldstein; University of California Press, 2003
Subjects: Marginality, Social--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Poor--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Poor--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro--Humor, Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)--Race Relations, Sex--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Slums--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Violence--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro
...Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown, by Donna M. Goldstein 10...Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown Donna M. Goldstein UNIVERSITY...race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / Donna M. Goldstein. p. cm...
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Sex, Drugs, and HIV/AIDS in Brazil
Book by James A. Inciardi, Hilary L. Surratt, Paulo R. Telles; Westview Press, 2000
Subjects: Aids (Disease)--Brazil, Aids (Disease)--Brazil--Prevention, Aids (Disease)--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro, Aids (Disease)--Brazil--Rio De Janeiro--Prevention, Urban Poor--Health And Hygiene--Brazil
...family fled the Napoleonic invasion and moved the government to Rio de Janeiro. In 1821, King Joao VI returned to Portugal, but...in 1964 a military coup installed General Humberto Castelo Branco as president. The Branco takeover differed from the prior coups...
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journal articles on: Rio Branco  - 46 results

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Layers, Flows and Intersections: Jeronymo Jose De Mello and Artisan Life in Rio De Janeiro, 1840s-1880s
Journal article by Zephyr Frank; Journal of Social History, Vol. 41, 2007
Subjects: Artisans--Finance, Artisans--History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--Economic aspects, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--History, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--Social aspects, de Mello, Jeronymo Jose--Finance
...and party politics combined to push the passage of the Rio Branco law, in 1871. Although very few slaves benefited from...1970). 11. The best explanation of the genesis of the Rio Branco law and its limited effects is found in Needell, The...
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The End of the World in Rio
Journal article by John Velasco-De Armas; New England Review, Vol. 21, 2000
Subjects: Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)--Social Life And Customs
...monument for the lost soldier, then the foot of Avenida Rio Branco, the main business street, and the turnof-the-century...airport lounge anywhere--anywhere but in boisterous, buoyant Rio de Janeiro. "Varig announces the departure of its six...
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Outside of the Box
Journal article by Bill Kouwenhoven; Afterimage, Vol. 34, 2007
Subjects: Branco, Miguel de Silva Paranhos do Rio--Exhibitions, Photography--Exhibitions
...by Bill Kouwenhoven MIGUEL RIO BRANCO: OUT OF NOWHERE GRONINGER MUSEUM...2006 Miguel de Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco was born the son of a diplomat in...installations. It is a tour de force through Rio Brancos vision. The title of this remarkable...
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Not as Easy as Black and White: The Implications of the University of Rio De Janeiro's Quota-Based Admissions Policy on Affirmative Action Law in Brazil
Journal article by Ricardo Rochetti; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 37, 2004
Subjects: Affirmative action--Remedies, College admissions--Laws, regulations and rules, Racism--Laws, regulations and rules
...discrimination posing no such threat should be allowed. (70.) See Cesar, supra note 16. (71.) Id. (72.) Id. (73.) Adriana Castelo Branco, Para OAB-RJ, cota fere Constituticao In OAB-Rjs opinion, quotas violate the Constitution, O GLOBO, Feb. 24, 2003, available...
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Peri-Urban Agroforestry in the Brazilian Amazon [*]
Journal article by Vanessa A. V. Slinger; The Geographical Review, Vol. 90, 2000
...explored by the municipal government of Rio Branco, Acre, in western Amazonia (Figure...experienced in city slums (Prefeitura de Rio Branco 1993). The experience of the Agroforestry...the cities of Manaus, Belem, and Rio Branco (Sawyer 1990). Urbanization in the...
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Miguel Rio Branco: Christopher Grimes Gallery
Magazine article by Christopher Miles; Artforum International, Vol. 45, May 2007
Subjects: Documentary films--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary films--Exhibitions, Documentary movies--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary movies--Exhibitions, Documentary photography--Criticism and interpretation, Documentary photography--Exhibitions, Photography, Documentary--Criticism and interpretation, Photography, Documentary--Exhibitions, Rio Branco, Miguel--Criticism and interpretation, Rio Branco, Miguel--Exhibitions
Miguel Rio Branco: Christopher Grimes Gallery. by Christopher...something will pay me in hell." Miguel Rio Branco found the line scrawled on a wall in the...that led David Levi Strauss to compare Rio Branco to Caravaggio in these pages a decade...
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Smoking Mirrors: The Photographs of Miguel Rio Branco
Magazine article by David Levi Strauss; Artforum International, Vol. 35, April 1997
Subjects: Photographers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Photography, Artistic--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Rio Branco, Miguel--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...mirrors: the photographs of Miguel Rio Branco. by David Levi Strauss...later transplanted to Brazil, Miguel Rio Branco has had a little more time, but he...with a renegade baroque sensibility. Rio Brancos realism reminds us that the Portuguese...
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The Rio World: Known for Dionysian Revelry and Breathtaking Bird's-Eye Vistas, Rio Isn't Just the Home of the Girl from Ipanema. This Decadent City Also Has a Literary Side
Magazine article by Andrew Hearst; Book, September 2003
Subjects: Authors--Influence, Authors--Quotations, Authors--Social aspects, Coelho, Paulo--Quotations, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--Appreciation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (City)--Social aspects
...Ouvidor 11A) An excellent store for Foreign-language books is Nova Livraria Leonardo da Vinci (located just past Avenida Rio Branco 185 in Castelo). Carnaval, the flamboyant street party that takes place every year just before Ash Wednesday, is the...
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Lands, Trees and Justice: Defenders of the Amazon
Magazine article by Susanna Hecht, Alexander Cockburn; The Nation, Vol. 248, May 22, 1989
Subjects: Amazon River Region--Environmental aspects, Brazil--Environmental policy, Labor unions--Environmental policy, Rodriguez, Osmarino Amancio--Interviews
...dead," Osmarino told the crowd in Rio Branco last Easter. "Things cant be as...Through Holy Week the little town of Rio Branco, capital of the western Brazilian...the upper Acrean forests west of Rio Branco, ninety families were under threat...
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The Secretary-General: Excerpts from Statements by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 33, Summer 1996
Subjects: Boutros Ghali, Boutros--Addresses, essays, lectures, United Nations--Officials and employees
...The Secretary-General: excerpts from statements by United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali To the Rio Branco Institute, Brasilia, Brazil, 29 February: The cause of democracy has found a home in the United Nations. A new international...
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Branco to Meet Robson
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), February 4, 1996
...Robson. Byline: BOB CASS BRAZILIAN World Cup winner Branco will meet Bryan Robson tomorrow to discuss his possible transfer to Middlesbrough. The 31-year-old left back said in Rio de Janeiro yesterday that he would be flying to Britain for...
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BACK HOME TO RIO, SOCCER WIFE WHO DIDN'T LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE TEESSIDE; [Pounds Sterling]4m STAR'S SPOUSE GETS COLD FEET OVER MOVE TO MIDDLESBROUGH
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 7, 1996
...to settle in England, he said in Rio yesterday. `She has had problems...other Brazilian imports, Juninho and Branco. But Branco has recently been sent packing by...homesickness, Emerson, who was born in Rio and first played for the local side...
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Amazon Region Faces New Threats; Development, Drought Fires Ravage Forest
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 10, 2006
...Anton Foek, THE WASHINGTON TIMES RIO BRANCO, Brazil - Irving Foster Brown, a...past 14 years conducting research in Rio Branco to understand regional challenges...meetings or the waiting room of the Rio Branco airport, but recently made a rare...
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Brazil's World Cup May Yet Be about the Environment
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 24, 2009
Subjects: Professional soccer
...Cuiaba and Goiania in the mid-west; Salvador, Natal, Recife and Fortaleza in the north-east, plus the Amazonian cities of Rio Branco, Manaus and Belem. Those latter three have all built campaigns based on improving eco-tourism in the region but its unlikely...
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Switch on; It's a Jungle in Here
Newspaper article by John Millar; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 10, 1996
...he now lives in the Brazilian jungle making remarkable films like tonights. For this programme, he filmed along the Rio Branco in northern Brazil, capturing sights like turtles queuing bumper to bumper to sun themselves on a log. The film maker...
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encyclopedia articles on: Rio Branco  - 8 results

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Rio Branco
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RIO BRANCO city (1996 pop. 228,907), capital of...chief products; there is also some farming. Rio Branco has air connections with the major cities...still an important means of transportation. Rio Branco was built on the site of a former rubber...
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Rio Branco, JosÉ Maria Da Silva Paranhos, BarÃo Do
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
RIO BRANCO, JOSE MARIA DA SILVA PARANHOS, BARAO DO zhooze m re d sel v p ra nyoos b rouN doo re oo brang koo, 1845 1912, Brazilian...
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Boa Vista
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...154,166), capital of Roraima state, NW Brazil, on the Rio Branco. Its economy is based on the processing and shipment...Roraima when it was created (as the federal territory of Rio Branco) in 1943. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia...
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Roraima
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the Guiana Highlands , the region is drained by the Rio Branco. The climate is equatorial, with wet winters and dry...belonging to Amazonas state; until 1962 it was named Rio Branco. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...
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Acre , State, Brazil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...ak ra, state (1990 est. pop. 1,125,100), 58,915 sq mi (152,590 sq km), W Brazil, on the borders of Peru and Bolivia. Rio Branco is the capital. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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