Brazil : a biography /
For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions, vast natural resources and entrenched corruption, extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from Portuguese. |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : "Brazil is just nearby"
- First came the name, and then the land called Brazil
- The sugar civilization : bitter for the many, sweet for a few
- Tit for tat : slavery and the naturalization of violence
- Gold!
- Revolt, conspiracy and sedition in the tropical paradise
- Ship ahoy! a court at sea
- Dom João and his court in the tropics
- The father leaves, the son remains
- Independence habemus : instability in the First empire
- Regencies, or the sound of silence
- The second reign : at last, a nation in the tropics
- The end of the monarchy in Brazil
- The first republic : the people take to the streets
- Samba, malandragem, authoritarianism : the birth of modern Brazil
- Yes, we have democracy!
- The 1950s and 1960s : bossa- nova, democracy and underdevelopment
- On a knife edge : dictatorship, opposition and resistance
- On the path to democracy : the transition to civilian power and the ambiguities and legacy of the military dictatorship
- Conclusion : history is not arithmetic.