Mas não sabia que ele tinha sido publicado nos EUA também. Ele foi aliás escrito para o público americano, pois seu conteúdo foi preparado para as conferências que Oliveira Lima fez em universidades americanas na segunda década do século XX.
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Anglo-Saxon America The six lectures included in the present volume were
delivered at Leland Stanford Junior University in the autumn of 1912 by
Dr. Oliveira Lima under the auspices of the Department of History. To
those familiar with the recent contributions of Latin America and, more
especially, Brazil, in the field of historical scholarship the
distinguished author of these lectures needs no introduction; as
historian, essayist and diplomat, he has won a commanding place in the
intellectual activities of contemporary Brazil; as a tireless
investigator and productive scholar, he has done much to raise the study
of South American History to a dignity and importance it had never
previously enjoyed. Manoel de Oliveira Lima was born in Pernambuco,
Brazil, December 25, 1865. At the age of twenty he received the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Lisbon; two
years later he embarked upon a diplomatic career of unusual
fruitfulness. From 1892 to 1900 he was attache to the Brazilian
embassies at Berlin, Washington and London. In 1901 he was appointed
minister to Japan; from 1902 to 1913 he represented Brazil in a similar
capacity in Peru, Venezuela, Sweden and Belgium, and on various
occasions he was intrusted with important foreign missions. In 1913 he
withdrew from the diplomatic service to devote his entire time to the
prosecution of his historical studies. While acting as the
representative of Brazil, Dr. Lima always interpreted his obligations
with much latitude; his conception of the duties of a minister
plenipotentiary differed widely from that of a conventional diplomatist.
He refused to confine his talents and energies to the usual routine in
which fixed conventions, meaningless etiquette and hampering
restrictions play such a large part. He conceived it his mission to
represent Brazil at her best or not at all. Whether in Tokyo or
Brussels, in Caracas or Stockholm, he strove unceasingly to extend a
wider and truer knowledge of Brazil; not only the Brazil of the present,
with her astounding economic development, but also the Brazil of the
past with her rich spiritual heritages, her fine traditions, her
inspiring history and literature. In pursuance of this ambitious program
he displayed an intellectual activity little short of prodigious. About
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