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The Brazil Reader : History, Culture, Politics /

"From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively r...

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Autres auteurs: Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz (Éditeur intellectuel), Langland, Victoria (Éditeur intellectuel), Green, James Naylor, 1951- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Édition:Second edition, revised and updated.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Conquest and colonial rule, 1500-1579
  • Sugar and slavery in the Atlantic world, 1580-1694
  • Gold and the new colonial order, 1695-1807
  • The Portuguese royal family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821
  • From independence to the abolition of the slave trade, 1822-1850
  • Coffee, the empire, and abolition, 1851-1888
  • Republican Brazil and the onset of modernization, 1889-1929
  • Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930-1945
  • Democratic governance and developmentalism, 1946-1964
  • The generals in power and the fight for democracy, 1964-1985
  • Redemocratization and the new global economy, 1985-present.