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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... Amazon and its tributaries contained more than 1,800 vari- eties of fish , as well as caimans , manatees , and turtles . Humans had inhabited this region for at least ten thousand years , divided into hun- dreds of tribes representing ...
... Amazon basin was divided up among missionary groups — the Franciscans , Capuchins , the Fathers of Piedade and Conceição , the Carmelites , and the Jesuits on the upstream south bank of the Amazon - who placed the Indians under their ...
... Amazon themselves , a plan they justified because the area fell partially within the limits of the territory ceded to them by the Torde- sillas treaty ( although by the Tordesillas map most of the Amazon should have been Spanish ) ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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