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The Brazil reader : history, culture, politics /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Green, James Naylor, 1951- (Editor), Langland, Victoria (Editor), Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Edition:Second edition, revised and updated.
Series:Latin America readers.
Subjects:
Brazil > History.
Brazil > Civilization.
Brazil > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.