| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
xii, 544 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Interactions: New Challenges and Continuities -- The Land -- The Indian -- The European -- Discovery and Challenges -- Patterns for the Future -- 2. The Colonial Experience -- Social Amalgamation -- Territorial Expansion -- Economic and Political Dependency -- 3. Nation Building -- Psychological and Intellectual Formation of Nationhood -- The Braganzas in Brazil -- Political Independence -- Chaos Into Order -- 4. Modernization and Continuity -- Coffee as a Motor of Change -- Material Transformation -- Progress and Dependency -- Statesmen and Diplomats -- 5. Change and Continuity -- New Social Groups and New Ideas -- Abolition, Immigration, and Labor -- The Middle Groups and the Military -- Incorporating Rural Folk into Capitalism -- 6. The New Brazil -- The Old Republic Ascending -- The Triumph of Diplomacy -- Exploiting the Amazon -- The Decline of the Old Republic -- 7. The Challenge of Change -- New Themes in History -- Intellectual and Political Ferment -- Shifting Patterns of Power -- Nationalism and Industrialization -- 8. Reform, Radicalization, and Reaction -- Democratization -- Developmental Nationalism -- Growing Pains -- A Political Surprise -- The Promise or Threat of Reform -- 9. The Past as Present -- Military Dictatorship -- The Masquerade of Democracy -- Frontiers of Challenge. Appendix 1: Chiefs of State of Brazil -- Appendix 2: A Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History -- A Glossary of Portuguese Words Used in the Text -- The Novel as History: A Bibliographic Essay. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [505]-514) and index. |
| Subject |
Brazil -- History.
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| ISBN |
0231079540 |
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0231079559 paperback |
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