Review the books The Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, 1600-1900, by Muriel Nazzari, Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana De Parnaiba, 1580-1822, by Alida C. Metcalf, The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945, by Dain Borges, and Gosto Do Pecado: Casamento E Sexualidade Nos Manuais De Confessores Dos Seculos XVI E XVII, by Angela Mendes de Almeida.;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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220 p, Contents: Meanings of the new world order -- A neoliberal model for post-Duvalier Haiti -- The struggle for a democratic alternative: 1986-1990 -- The prophet armed: Jean-Betrand Aristide's liberation theology and politics -- An alternative development model for Haiti -- The Lavalas government and its overthrow: February to September 1991 -- The prophet tamed: the coup d'état and the moderation of Aristide