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Diplomatie, Pilgerfahrt und Identitätsdarstellungen auf der Iberischen Halbinsel (15./16. Jh.) – Kulturaustausch zwischen Portugal und Deutschland – Martin Behaim – Augsburger Handelshäuser in Portugal und Übersee (16. Jh.) – Jesuiten deutscher Sprache in Brasilien und Asien – Brasilienreise von Spix und Martius

Der Autor untersucht die Geschichte der Kommunalverwaltung von Niteroi und Campos und stellt fest, daß sich, begleitet von demographischen und urbanen Entwicklungen wie von ideologischen Einflüssen der europäischen Gesellschaften, die Merkmale der kommunalen Gesetzgebung in beiden Orten während des 19. Jahrhunderts ähneln. Spätere Veränderungen drücken das Bestreben aus, fundiertere Kenntnisse und verbesserte Kontrollmöglichkeiten über den städtischen Raum zu gewinnen

This article emphasizes the discussion around the representations and effective uses of the House
of Detention in Recife in the context of the empire's prison reform. Symbol of civility and penal
modernity, but also of control and public security, the House of Detention in Recife was perceived
by city managers as an instrument whose purpose was to settle and remedy the criminal
practices of a portion of the population considered to be unruly and prone to crime. On the other
hand, a group of popular segments, far from endorsing this representation of the prison
institution, appropriated the prison as a commercial zone. Between the "reassuring institution"
and the "house of commerce", between the representations of the elite and the effective uses of
the institution, we will reconstruct aspects of the history of prison reform as experienced in Recife
in the second half of the 19th century.

Looking at market leader companies in their segments, such as Companhia Singer, we are not always aware of their trajectory. Which strategies were responsible for their growth? Have they used advertisements since their foundation? This study aimed to observe marketing strategies (brand building, product, sales condition, sales promotion) in early Singer machines adverts in press from Pará and to examine how they used marketing and branding techniques similar to the ones known today.The corpus is composed of Singer machines ads published in Belém, Pará, from 1850 to 1870 in the following newspapers: Diário do Gram-Pará, Diário de Belém, O Liberal do Pará and A Província do Pará.

"Soft" slavery in Brazil: Was Gilberto Freyre right? This article examines the question of the supposedly benign character of Brazilian slavery, in contrast with slavery in North America. In economic analyses of slavery, coercion toward slaves is viewed as a means to achieve maximum output, especially in large-scale agriculture. In small slave holdings, however, coercion was generally inefficient for that purpose, and positive incentives tended to be preferred. It is argued that, as recent evidence on Brazil has shown that small slave holdings prevailed, in various regions and periods, this may lend empirical support to the notion of a relatively benign slavery, using more incentives than coercion. (Rev Econ Polit/GIGA)