The Brazil Of To Day A Book Of Commercial Political And Geographical Information On Brazil Impressions Of Voyage Descriptive And Picturesque Data

Author : Arthur Dias
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ISBN 13 : 9781331888017
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Brazil of To-Day written by Arthur Dias and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Brazil of to-Day: A Book of Commercial, Political and Geographical Information on Brazil, Impressions of Voyage, Descriptive and Picturesque Date About the Principal Cities, Prominent Men and Leading Events of Our Days With Illustrations and Statistics This great country, already one of the largest in the world when it made its appearance as an independent nation at the beginning of the last century, has since added to its map several regions, both at the North and South, not by means of military conquests, but through the decisions of international judges. At the beginning of this century there were only four flags unfurling their colors over communities larger than the Brazilian Republic and they were: England, which is the largest empire of the world, with its colonies and possessions all over; Russia, with its Asiatic annexations; the immense China which we may compare with a well, as it seems to grow at the proportion other nations take away from it some territory; and the United States with its four million of square miles much enlarged by the victories won in the war against Spain. Of all these great countries, however, none has territorial homogeneity, and what is still more important, none has the homogeneity of its race as Brazil has. That enormous English empire is by itself a map of peoples without any other ties but its powerful instruments of administration, so that, what we admire it for, is not its tendency towards desaggregation nearly exposing itself by the independence of the Australian federation, but for its aggremiation, as it exists to-day, conglomerating artificially ethnic dispositions, habits and customs, languages and social inclinations of impossible assimilation. The massive Russia is an aggravation of the English heterogeneity we referred to: is like the English empire but more crowded with antagonistic races-the Slavonic, Polish, Laplanders, Finlanders, Estonians, Armenians, Siberians, Parminiens and Georgians, Tartars and Tehoudians, in short, une monstrueuse el discordante agglomeration de peuples, as a certain geographer put it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.