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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... half a millennium , only those on the periphery of elite life have questioned the persistence of misery and society's reluctance to face hard issues about income maldistribution , wage repression , and lack of avenues for upward ...
... half of which was taken by the United States , or like Bolivia and Peru , in regional wars . Conservatism , not the anticlerical liberalism of mid- nineteenth - century Mexico , characterized Brazil's political life under the Empire ...
... half empty , not half full . Paulo Prado , for example , scion to a wealthy paulista coffee clan , carried forward the pessimistic explanations of the nineteenth - century eugenicists , convinced that Brazil's colonial heritage of ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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