Brazil : five centuries of change / Thomas E. Skidmore.

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Skidmore, Thomas E

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Latin American historiesPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780198026136
0198026137
9780195058093
0195058097
0199725896
9780199725892
1281975524
9781281975522
9786611975524
6611975527

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brazil.DDC classification:

981 22

LOC classification:

F2521 .S54 1999eb

Other classification:

15.85

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Contents:

Birth and growth of colonial Brazil: 1500-1750 -- Crisis of the colonial system and emergence of an independent Brazil: 1750-1830 -- Revolt, consolidation, and war: 1830-70 -- Making Brazil "modern": 1870-1910 -- World War I, the Great Depression, and dictatorship: 1910-45 -- Democracy under Vargas, halcyon days with Kubitschek, and a military coup: 1945-64 -- Rule of the military: 1964-85 -- Redemocratization--new hope, old problems: 1985-

Review: "Indispensable introductory survey of Brazilian history, 1500-1998. Pre-1930 history is treated as background. Second half is an outstanding narrative of politics and economic policy from 1930-present. Accessible to students and general readers. Particularly interesting are the book's final chapters, which seem to be addressed more to the conscience of the Brazilian ruling class than to foreign readers. Includes bibliographical essay, but one much less dense than typically found in Oxford Univ. Press one-volume histories of Latin American nations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58. http://www.loc.gov/hlas

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-250) and index.

"Indispensable introductory survey of Brazilian history, 1500-1998. Pre-1930 history is treated as background. Second half is an outstanding narrative of politics and economic policy from 1930-present. Accessible to students and general readers. Particularly interesting are the book's final chapters, which seem to be addressed more to the conscience of the Brazilian ruling class than to foreign readers. Includes bibliographical essay, but one much less dense than typically found in Oxford Univ. Press one-volume histories of Latin American nations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.