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This title presents the previously unpublished letters of a major
twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881,
Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time.
Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria
in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South
America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife
Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and
feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide
together in 1942. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but
as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain
contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's correspondence all
but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about
his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his
second-wife, secretary and travel-companion. This book provides an
analysis of the Zweigs' time together and for the first time
reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and
Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally
emerges from her husband's shadows, with the letters offering
significant insights into their relationship and her experience of
exile.
This title includes the previously unpublished letters of a major
twentieth-century writer and his wife. Born in Vienna in 1881,
Stefan Zweig was one of the most respected authors of his time.
Foreseeing Nazi Germany's domination of Europe, Zweig left Austria
in 1933. In 1941, following a successful lecture tour of South
America and several months in New York, Stefan Zweig and his wife
Lotte emigrated to Brazil. Despairing at Europe's future and
feeling increasingly isolated, the Zweigs committed suicide
together in 1942. Stefan Zweig was an incessant correspondent but
as the 1930s progressed, it became difficult for him to maintain
contact with friends and colleagues. As Zweig's correspondence all
but ceased with the outbreak of World War II, little is known about
his final years. Even less is known about Lotte Zweig, his
second-wife, secretary and travel-companion. This book provides an
analysis of the Zweigs' time together and for the first time
reproduces personal letters, written by the couple in Argentina and
Brazil, along with editorial commentary. Furthermore, Lotte finally
emerges from her husband's shadows, with the letters offering
significant insights into their relationship and her experience of
exile.
One enduring legacy of the close relationship between Britain and
Brazil over the course of centuries is the existence in the British
Isles of a wealth of archival holdings relating to Brazil. Brazil
in British and Irish Archives is the first guide devoted to this
rich resource. The Brazil-related manuscript holdings of 79 British
and Irish archives, libraries and museums that are described in
this expanded and revised second edition of the guide are extremely
varied, but together they offer unique insights into 16th- to
20th-century Brazilian history. Although this material is
especially important for the understanding of 19th- and early
20th-century British-Brazilian relations, many other historical
themes and periods are illuminated. Historians will find Brazil in
British and Irish Archives to be an invaluable tool for identifying
material that is held by national, local and specialist archival
repositories
Brazil is not usually associated with British agricultural
immigrants, but in the late 1860s and early 1870s great efforts
were made to stimulate interest in the country. An idealized image
of Brazil was created to help persuade dissatisfied Irish and
English to pack up and join settlement schemes in a country that
they had previously known nothing about. This book offers a vivid
picture of this migration process and new insights into linkages
between Ireland, England, the United States and Brazil. Focusing on
the lives of individual immigrants, this is one of the most
detailed studies of life in the Brazilian government's isolated and
under-funded agricultural settlement schemes.
Uma prova definitiva da relacao de proximidade desenvolvida entre a
Gra-Bretanha e o Brazil ao longo de seculos e a existencia nas
Ilhas Britanicas de um rico patrimonio arquivistico sobre o Brasil.
Brasil nos Arquivos Britanicos e Irlandeses foi o primeiro guia
dedicado a esse magnifico legado, agora publicado em lingua
portuguesa em versao revista e ampliada. O guia, que lista e
descreve 79 colecoes de manuscritos relativos ao Brasil existentes
em arquivos, bibliotecas e museus britancos e irlandeses, oferece
importantes subsidios para a historia do Brasil do seculo XVI ao
XX. Embora esse material seja particularmente importante para a
compreensao das relacoes Gra-Bretanha-Brasil no seculo XIX e inicio
do XX, outros temas e periodos historicos sao tambem contemplados.
Os historiadores reconhecerao em Brasil nos Arquivos Britanicos e
Irlandeses valioso instrumento de identificacao desse rico acervo
mantido por repositorios arquivisticos locais, nacionais e
especializados, espalhados pelas ilhas britanicas.
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