Contributor
Green, James Naylor, 1951- editor.
Edition Statement:Second edition, revised and updated.
ImprintDurham : Duke University Press, 2019.
Descriptionxv, 586 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Note: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.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-556) and index.
Note:Containing over one hundred selections--many of which appear in English for the first time--this extensively revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Brazil Reader presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half-millennia.
Note:Recommended in Resources for College Libraries.
