Péricles Azambuja

{{Short description|Brazilian journalist and historian (1927–2012)}}

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Péricles Azambuja (August 13, 1927 – November 8, 2012) was a Brazilian historian, writer and journalist. He was a specialist in and published many books related to the history of southern Brazil and southern South America and Antarctica, including História das Terras e Mares do Chuí (1978),{{cite book|last=Azambuja|first=Péricles|title=História das terras e mares do Chuí|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fgYsAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=10 June 2011|year=1978|publisher=Universidade de Caxias do Sul}} a history of Chuí. He documented much about Gaucho history in Brazil and has also written books on Antarctica and the southern islands such as "Antártida: Derecho que Tiene Brasil, (1981),{{cite book|author1=International Studies Association|author2=University of Pittsburgh. University Center for International Studies|author3=Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management|title=International studies notes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wylDAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=10 June 2011|year=1981|publisher=International Studies Association.}} Antártida História e Geopolítica (1982){{cite book|last=Azambuja|first=Péricles|title=Antártida, história e geopolítica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNjUcQAACAAJ|accessdate=10 June 2011|year=1982}} and Falkland ou Malvinas: o arquipélago contestado (1988).{{cite book|last=Azambuja|first=Péricles|title=Falkland ou Malvinas: o arquipélago contestado|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3g4aAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=10 June 2011|year=1988|publisher=EDUCS, Editora da Universidade de Caxias do Sul|isbn=978-85-7061-073-7}} He is cited as amongst the most important geopolitical writers about Antarctica.{{cite book|last=Atkins|first=G. Pope|title=South America into the 1990s: evolving international relationships in a new era|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DmN9AAAAMAAJ|accessdate=10 June 2011|year=1990|publisher=Westview Press|isbn=978-0-8133-7515-1}} In 2001 he published Prefeitura de S. Vitória do Palmar, sua terra, Tahim, a última divisa, a study of the socioeconomic conditions of southern Brazil.

{{cite book|last1=Flores|first1=Hilda Agnes Hübner|last2=Doberstein|first2=Arnoldo Walter|title=Integração 2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lP-aNuV0s1MC&pg=PA162|accessdate=10 June 2011|date=January 2003|publisher=EDIPUCRS|isbn=978-85-7430-353-6|page=162}} Azambuja has been a member of the Association Press Riograndense, Circle of Literary Research of the Brazilian Academy of History, the Brazilian Association of Culture and the Brazilian Institute of Antarctic Studies as a member of the Supreme Council.{{cite web|url=http://www.uruguayinforme.com/news/01102004/01102004dornel2.htm|title=Péricles Azambuja|publisher=Uruguay Informe|accessdate=10 June 2011}}