A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Forfatter af The Portuguese Empire, 1415-1808: A World on the Move
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A. J. R. Russell-Wood is the Herbert Baxter Adams Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.
Værker af A. J. R. Russell-Wood
Fidalgos and philanthropists; the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of Bahia, 1550-1755 (1968) 7 eksemplarer
A World on the Move: Portuguese in Africa, Asia and America, 1415-1808 (Aspects of Portugal) (1992) 5 eksemplarer
Manuel Francisco Lisboa 2 eksemplarer
Associated Works
Negotiated Empires: Centers and Peripheries in the New World, 1500-1820 (2002) — Bidragyder — 36 eksemplarer
Colonial Brazil (Cambridge History of Latin America) (1987) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 25 eksemplarer
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"These took the form of word lists and grammars drawn up by religious, in which the Jesuits were to the fore but not alone, and laymen, and which constitute a base for historical linguistics of some peoples of Africa, Asia and America." Try 220 pages of that and see what I mean (copied exactly from p193.)
In addition, another problem is the lack of summarising and failure to sufficiently spell out key messages within the text. I tired of reading the endless stories about individuals or places that are all included to make the same point. I did learn from this book but I could not read more than 20 pages at once before getting awfully sleepy.… (mere)