A Concise History of BrazilCambridge University Press, 11. aug 2014 The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent political scientist, brings the history up to the present, focusing on Brazil's increasing global economic importance as well as its continued democratic development and the challenges the country faces to meet the higher expectations of its people. |
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imperial brazil 18221889 | 75 |
the first republic 18891930 | 144 |
the vargas state 19301945 | 193 |
the democratic experiment 19451964 | 231 |
the military government and the transition | 273 |
modernization under democracy 19852010 | 324 |
Brief Term of Fernando Collor in Office | 329 |
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