Travels in Various countries of the East; more particularly Persia. A work wherein the Author has described as far as his own observations extended, the State of those Countries in 1810,1811 and 1812 and has endeavoured to illustrate many subjects of Anti

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Remarks on the statistics and political institutions of the United States, with some observations on the ecclesiastical system of America, her sources of revenue &c., to which are added statistical tables &c.

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A treatise on harmony /

"Explanation of the diagrams of the musical scale and its component intervals. By William Pole" : p. [259]-[269]Mode of access: Internet

A treatise on harmony;

"Explanation of the diagrams of the musical scale and its component intervals. By William Pole": p. [263]-267.Mode of access: Internet

A África carioca em lentes européias: corpos, sinais e expressões

A proposta deste artigo é examinar as maneiras pelas quais alguns viajantes europeus que estiveram no Rio de Janeiro durante a primeira metade do século XIX diferenciaram os africanos na experiência da escravidão, tratando de um viés temático específico: os registros produzidos pela literatura de viagem oitocentista a respeito de suas belezas físicas, sinais corporais e expressões de cantos e danças. A convergência temática e valorativa desses relatos permite-nos observar a reiteração de certas tópicas que cristalizaram os significados mais comuns atribuídos pelos olhares estrangeiros aos africanismos com que depararam na cidade que continha, à época, a maior população escrava das Américas.<br>The proposal of this article is to investigate the ways some European travellers, who have came to the city of Rio de Janeiro during the first half of the 19th century, registered Africans in the slavery experience. Foreigners who visited Brazilian Court until 1850 faced the biggest African slave population of the Americas, and the set of their literature, which describes such cultural and social counterpose, reveals conceptual reiterations of a whole lot of physical and behavioural characteristics given to Africans in captivity