Favelas, or shantytowns, are where cocaine is mainly sold in Rio de Janeiro. There are some six hundred favelas in the city, and most of them are controlled by well-organized and heavily armed drug gangs. The struggle for the massive profits from this drug trade has resulted in what are increasingly violent and deadly confrontations between rival drug gangs and a corrupt and brutal police force, that have transformed parts of the city into a war-zone. Lucia tells the story of one woman who was once intimately involved with drug gang life in Rio throughout the 1990s. Through a series of convers
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Imprint varies slightly. ; The events of one complete century from the discovery of the river Pascalaqua. II. The events of seventy-five years, from MDCCXV to MDCCXC.--III. A geographical description of the state; with sketches of its natural history, productions, improvements, and present state of society and manners, laws and government. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Tail-pieces. ; "Errata.": foot of verso of contents leaf. ; Advertisement: 12 numbered pages at front. ; Verso of t.p. blank. ; ESTC ; Mode of access: Internet.
Sabin, 14273, Sabin notes: "The English editor also shows an antipathy to Indian names, suppressing them habitually, striking out important passages, and, instead of the speeches which Colden gives at length, substitutes meagre abridgments. In fact, the whole work is so cut up and altered, that the reader of the English edition cannot be sure he is quoting Colden at all" ; Contiene: The introduction, being a short view of the form of government of the Five nations, and of their laws, customs, &c. - The history of the Five Indian nations, dependent on the province of New-York. pt. I-II. - Papers relating to an Act of the Assembly of the province of New-York, for encouragement of the Indian trade, &c. and for prohibiting the selling of Indian goods to the French, viz. of Canada . - The treaty held with the Indians of the Six nations, at Philadelphia, in July, 1742. - A treaty held at . Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, by the . lieutenant-governor of the province, and the . commissioners for the provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six united Indian nations, in June, 1744. - A treaty between . George Clinton . governor in chief of the province of New-York . and the Six united Indian nations, and other Indian nations depending on the province of New-York. Held at Albany in . August and September, 1746. - A collection of charters and other publick acts, relating to the province of Pennsylvania . ; Mode of access: Internet.
64 p. ; Written by Richard Blackmore. Cf. NUC pre-1956. ; Wrongly ascribed to James Drake, M.D. Cf. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.). ; Reproduction of original in Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.
