Brazil is not usually associated with British agricultural immigrants, but in the late 1860s and early 1870s great efforts were made to stimulate interest in the country. An idealized image of Brazil was created to help persuade dissatisfied Irish and English to pack up and join settlement schemes in a country that they had previously known nothing about. This book offers a vivid picture of this migration process and new insights into linkages between Ireland, England, the United States and Brazil. Focusing on the lives of individual immigrants, this is one of the most detailed studies of...

Uma prova definitiva da relacao de proximidade desenvolvida entre a Gra-Bretanha e o Brazil ao longo de seculos e a existencia nas Ilhas Britanicas de um rico patrimonio arquivistico sobre o Brasil. Brasil nos Arquivos Britanicos e Irlandeses foi o primeiro guia dedicado a esse magnifico legado, agora publicado em lingua portuguesa em versao revista e ampliada. O guia, que lista e descreve 79 colecoes de manuscritos relativos ao Brasil existentes em arquivos, bibliotecas e museus britancos e irlandeses, oferece importantes subsidios para a historia do Brasil do seculo XVI ao XX. Embora esse...

One enduring legacy of the close relationship between Britain and Brazil over the course of centuries is the existence in the British Isles of a wealth of archival holdings relating to Brazil. Brazil in British and Irish Archives is the first guide devoted to this rich resource. The Brazil-related manuscript holdings of 79 British and Irish archives, libraries and museums that are described in this expanded and revised second edition of the guide are extremely varied, but together they offer unique insights into 16th- to 20th-century Brazilian history. Although this material is especially...