A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil
The book delves into the significance of the parentela, or extended family, using Epitacio's family as a case study to explore how connections through blood, marriage, and friendship influenced political dynamics across local, state, and national arenas during Brazil's Old Republic era from 1889 to 1930.
'My Faraway Country: Myanmar', written and illustrated by Linda Lewin.A series of stories, told by a range of real and fictive narrators which lyrically evoke the childhoods and the adult adventures and struggles of a Karen family in Myanmar, through the twentieth and into the twenty first century.With vivid and beautiful illustrations, drawn from historic photographs and the work of the artist/author, this book is as illuminating about Myanmar as it is a moving account of an admirably adventurous, enterprising and eccentric family.A poetic and beautifully illustrated account of a family, its adventures and experience, and their country Myanmar.Find more information on Linda Lewin on her website.