A History of Brazil

By: E. Bradford Burns

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Hardcover | 1 November 1993 | Edition Number 3

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Here is a new edition of the book generally acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Brazil. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to include expanded treatment of intellectual, social, and popular history, and to provide increased coverage of labor, blacks, women, and the military in Brazilian history.

Complete in breadth and chronological span, A History of Brazil is a panoramic interpretation of the Brazilian past from discovery to the present that treats the economic, social, cultural, and political evolution of Latin America's largest nation.

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Deserves a place on the shelf of any student of Latin American history. American Historical Review

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Interactions: New Challenges and Continuities	p. 9
The Land	p. 10
The Indian	p. 15
The European	p. 19
Discovery and Challenges	p. 23
Patterns for the Future	p. 27
The Colonial Experience	p. 37
Social Amalgamation	p. 37
Territorial Expansion	p. 48
Economic and Political Dependency	p. 61
Nation Building	p. 99
Psychological and Intellectual Formation of Nationhood	p. 99
The Braganzas in Brazil	p. 111
Political Independence	p. 116
Chaos Into Order	p. 134
Modernization and Continuity	p. 149
Coffee as a Motor of Change	p. 149
Material Transformation	p. 157
Progress and Dependency	p. 165
Statesmen and Diplomats	p. 171
Change and Continuity	p. 197
New Social Groups and New Ideas	p. 198
Abolition, Immigration, and Labor	p. 210
The Middle Groups and the Military	p. 226
Incorporating Rural Folk into Capitalism	p. 248
The New Brazil	p. 259
The Old Republic Ascending	p. 260
The Triumph of Diplomacy	p. 276
Exploiting the Amazon	p. 285
The Decline of the Old Republic	p. 294
The Challenge of Change	p. 313
New Themes in History	p. 314
Intellectual and Political Ferment	p. 326
Shifting Patterns of Power	p. 346
Nationalism and Industrialization	p. 368
Reform, Radicalization, and Reaction	p. 381
Democratization	p. 382
Developmental Nationalism	p. 398
Growing Pains	p. 409
A Political Surprise	p. 423
The Promise or Threat of Reform	p. 432
The Past as Present	p. 445
Military Dictatorship	p. 446
The Masquerade of Democracy	p. 475
Frontiers of Challenge	p. 485
Appendix 1: Chiefs of State of Brazil	p. 493
Appendix 2: A Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History	p. 495
A Glossary of Portuguese Words Used in the Text	p. 501
The Novel as History: A Bibliographic Essay	p. 505
Index	p. 515
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