A brief history of Brazil
Edition
2nd ed.
Publication Information
New York : Facts On File, c2010.
Physical Description
xxiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
- Land and people before and after Portuguese exploration (prehistory to 1530)
- The Portuguese colony (1530-1800)
- Society in early Brazil: slavery, patriarchy, and the church (1530-1889)
- From colony to republic (1800-1889)
- Constructing a nation of free laborers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- Society and politics in the first republic (1890-1930)
- From Getúlio Vargas to the military coup (1930-1964)
- From military dictatorship to democracy (1964-2002)
- Popular culture: music, sports, television, and cinema in today's Brazil
- Brazil in the twenty-first century.