The History of BrazilBloomsbury Academic, 30. nov 1999 - 208 pages Brazil is a vast, complex country with great potential but an uneven history. This engaging study will introduce readers to the history of Brazil from its origins to today. It emphasizes current issues and problems, including the country's return to democracy after more than two decades of harsh military rule and the economic consequences of adopting free-market policies as part of the creation of the global marketplace. Levine, a noted Brazilianist, explains the legacy of slavery on race relations, the stubborn persistence of barriers to upward mobility, and the characteristics of Brazil's exuberant culture. The author draws not only from a broad array of traditional sources but from oral histories and postings on the Internet. |
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... rural residents live in isolation . Intracity trains are nonexistent except along the coast , and even there people more often travel by bus or on the backs of open trucks . Better houses in rural Brazil are of cement block ; many more ...
... rural and urban . Before 1930 most Brazilians were rural poor , dependent almost entirely on the elite for sustenance . They were illiterate and were kept in misery by the gen- eral system of land tenure , which kept most land out of ...
... rural peoples of the Andean highlands or central America . Most rural backlanders , though they lived as renters or sharecroppers under miserable conditions , re- tained a certain freedom of movement and a grudging spirit of self ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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