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Informationen zum Autor James N. Green is Carlos Manuel de CÉspedes Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Brazil Initiative at Brown University. Victoria Langland is Associate Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at the University of SÃo Paulo, Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and Curator at the Art Museum of SÃo Paulo (MASP). Klappentext James N. Green is Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Brazil Initiative at Brown University. Victoria Langland is Associate Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and Curator at the Art Museum of São Paulo (MASP). Zusammenfassung Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time—this extensively revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Brazil Reader presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half-millennia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500-1579 1 II. Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580-1694 49 III. Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695-1807 91 IV. The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1801-1821 131 V. From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822-1850 163 VI. Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851-1888 205 VII. Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889-1929 261 VIII. GetÚlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930-1945 321 IX. Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946-1964 363 X. The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964-1985 427 XI. Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1895-Present 497 Suggestions for Further Reading 547 Brazil in the Movies 557 Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources 567 Index 577 ...
