Gilberto Freyre

The Authors: Peter Burke is an internationally renowned historian at the University of Cambridge and has published 25 books including History and Social Theory and Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe (3rd edition forthcoming in 2008 for its 30th anniversary).Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke was Professor at the University São Paulo and is now an associate of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her book on the young Freyre, published in Portuguese in 2005, won prizes and wide acclaim.

• Contents: The Importance Of Being Gilberto – Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – Masters and Slaves – A Public Intellectual – Empire and Republic – The Social Theorist – Gilberto Our Contemporary.

«The world’s greatest thinking happens in many climes, contexts, and languages. To alert the English-speaking world to this fact, there are no better scholars than Peter and Maria Lúcia Pallares-Burke and no better subject than Gilberto Freyre – Brazil’s uomo universale, who combined literary genius, intellectual audacity, academic rigor, unrestricted vision and profound originality in work that has helped shape one of the global giants of the present and future: modern Brazil.» (Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Tufts University)«As expected, the authors have produced a major work of intellectual biography of a most original and influential Latin-American thinker.» (José Murilo de Carvalho, Brazilian Academy of Letters)«This is an excellent book focusing on the work of the leading Brazilian intellectual of the twentieth century, whose ideas had a major national and international impact.» (Francisco Bethencourt, University of London)«Peter Burke is the leading cultural historian of our generation.» (Jay Winter, Yale University)«(...) de Burkes hebben met dit boek een fascinerende intellectuele biografie van Gilberto Freyre geschreven, die ook voor de meer algemeen geïnteresseerde lezer meer dan de moeite waard is.» (Geert A. Banck, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis)