The Neutrality Acts were a series of laws passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s in an attempt to keep the country out of war. The acts prohibited the sale of arms to belligerent nations and required American citizens to travel on American ships. The acts were a departure from the traditional American policy of neutrality, which allowed American citizens to trade with and travel to belligerent nations.
The Inconfidência Mineira or Mine Conjuration was a separatist movement that took place in the then captaincy of Minas Gerais in 1789. The objective was to proclaim an independent Republic, create a university and abolish debts to the Royal Treasury. The movement, however, was discovered before th
The Oligarchic Republic (1894-1930) is characterized by the alternation of power between the coffee oligarchies of the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo. The presidents of this time were elected, in most cases, by the São Paulo Republican Party and the Mineiro Republican Party. From the 1930s o
OLD AND NEW MODELS IN 20TH CENTURY SOCIETY The decade of the 1970s was particularly important for the history of Peru because an emerging military class wanted to impose its ideas and transform the country. The revolutionary model that the leaders of that adventure had chosen was based on an ideolog
The impressive Moche iconography is perceived today as a portal to their lifestyle, their customs and their religious beliefs. This perception surely has more to do with the degree of apparent realism of his beautifully modeled and painted ceramic vessels than with the true nature of his representat