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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... capital , Brasília , in the late 1950s . Its northern end , the Pantanal region , is a large but shrinking environment of pristine natural flora and fauna , and In- dian reservations . It is the world's largest wetland , home to legions ...
... capital , returned to their programs of urban renovation . Engineers Francisco Pereira Passos and André Paulo de Frontín oversaw the modernization of Rio's port to fa- cilitate commerce , and they built handsome thoroughfares and boule ...
... capital from the United States . The war cut off Brazil's traditional Western European sources of loans and investment capital . For a time during the late 1930s , when Vargas was playing off Washington against Berlin , the German Reich ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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