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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... fact that nonwhites , and especially blacks , lived in poverty . The state , unlike the United States and South Africa , for example , imposed no categories of segregation or legal dis- crimination . Despite the commonness of early ...
... fact , has never had any regulations or legal pro- scriptions discriminating on the basis of race . When the African Ameri- can dancer Katherine Dunham was barred from a chic hotel in São Paulo in 1951 , the government enacted an ...
... fact topped thirty - five meters in height and were more than a thousand years in age . The Euro- peans were shocked at the primitive existence of the natives and puzzled by the fact that they did not covet wealth . Some of the tribes ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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