Portugal and Brazil in Transition

<div> <p><i>Portugal and Brazil in Transition</i> was first published in 1968. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.</p> <p>Through a series of essays on various aspects of Portuguese and Brazilian culture this book presents an enlightening picture of contemporary civilization in the two countries and a forecast of what the next twenty years or so may bring. The authors discuss subjects in such basic fields as literature linguistics history the social sciences geography the fine arts music and natural science. Taken as a whole the contents demonstrate the logic of organizing a volume not around a geographical concept but rather around a historical concept in this case the world the Portuguese created as Gilberto Freyre described it.</p> <p>The essays are based on papers that were given at the Sixth International Colloquium of Luso-Brazilian Studies held in the United States in 1966. In addition to the essays the book contains the text of comments and discussion about the papers. There are twenty-seven major essays by as many contributors and comments by a number of discussants.</p> </div>