From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Brazilians/Robert W. Shirley
The broad range of publications available on Brazil might best be grouped according to categories of study. The standard history of Brazil in English is E. Bradford Burns, A History of Brazil(New York, 1993), which can be supplemented with two volumes by Leslie Bethell, Brazil: Empire and Republic (Cambridge, U.K., 1987), and idem.,Colonial Brazil (Cambridge, 1987). The most comprehensive history in Portuguese is Sergio Buarque de Hollanda, Historia Geral da Civilização Brasileira, 14 vols. (São Paulo, c. 1960–84). Probably still the best English-language study of Brazilian culture is Charles Wagley, An Introduction to Brazil (New York, 1971). Brazilian political culture is covered in the standard work by Victor Nunes Leal, Coronelismo: The Municipality and Representative Government in Brazil (Cambridge, N.Y., 1977), and Werner Baer, The Brazilian Economy: Growth and Development (New York, 1994), is a recommended study of the Brazilian economy.
Sizable Brazilian emigration to Canada is too recent to have produced an extensive literature. Statistical and similar data can be found in a number of publications including Shiva Halli, Frank Trovato, and Leo Driedger, Ethnic Demography (Ottawa, 1990), 141–59, and Alan B. Simmons and Kieren Keohane, “Canadian Immigration Policy,” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology/ Revue canadienne de sociologie et d’anthropologie, vol.29, no.4 (1992), 421–52. Also useful are Howard Adelman, “Canadian Refugee Policy in the Postwar Period,” in Howard Adelman, ed., Refugee Policy: Canada and the United States(Toronto, 1991), and J.C.M. Ogelsby, Gringos from the Far North: Essays in Canadian Latin American Relations, 1968–1976 (Toronto, 1976).
For the history of an economic link between Toronto and Brazil, see Duncan McDowall, The Light (Toronto, 1988), and Duncan McDowall and Michael Grant, The South American Experience, Conference Board of Canada Report (Ottawa, 1987). Contemporary Brazilian-Canadian affairs are covered in the Toronto-based Brazilian newspapers, Abacaxi Times , Hora H News, and Brasil News. The Brazilian Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Toronto for several years has published an annual handbook and a monthly newsletter; it is also the publisher of Brazilian Carnival Ball: Twenty-fifth Souvenir Programme (Toronto, 1991).
