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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... poor have fared badly as well . Lacking skills , men and women work as manual laborers and maids and live in substandard housing : either tenements or shanty towns . Two factors make the plight of the very poor - more than half of Bra ...
... poor whites , and poor people of mixed race , and poor blacks . Immigrants , however , who arrived in Brazil mostly from Europe and also from Japan during the early republican decades , tended to re- main within their own ethnic ...
... poor ) . Many young Brazilians today , coming to maturity after a long period of military dictatorship , consider rights as something a person earns by conforming to social norms - and loses when one is arrested or suffers hard times ...
Contents
An Earthly Paradise | 1 |
Early Brazil 15001822 | 31 |
Independence and Empire 18221889 | 55 |
Copyright | |
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