A brief history of Brazil / Teresa A. Meade.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2019Edition: Second edition; [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (22 entries) : 52 images ; digital filesContent type:- still image
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- F2521 .M517 2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- List of maps -- Acknowledgments -- Preface to the second edition -- Introduction -- 1. Land and people before and after Portuguese exploration (prehistory to 1530) -- 2. Portuguese colony (1530-1800) -- 3. Society in early Brazil: slavery, patriarchy, and the church (1530-1889) -- 4. From colony to republic (1800-1889) -- 5. Constructing a nation of free laborers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- 6. Society and politics in the first republic (1890-1930) -- 7. From Getulio Vargas to the military coup (1930-1964) -- 8. From military dictatorship to democracy (1964-2002) -- 9. Popular culture: music, sports, television, and cinema in today's Brazil -- 10. Brazil in the twenty-first century -- Appendixes: 1. Basic facts about Brazil; 2. Chronology; 3. Bibliographic sources; 4. Suggested readings -- Index.
A Brief History of Brazil, Second Edition offers a concise yet comprehensive account of the rich and varied story of Brazil, placing the political, economic, and cultural events of today into broad historical context.