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Brazil : five centuries of change
- Title
- Brazil : five centuries of change / Thomas E. Skidmore.
- Author
- Skidmore, Thomas E.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 254 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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.
- Series Statement
- Latin American histories
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.
- 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- .
- Call Number
- F2521
- ISBN
- 0195058097 (hardcover)
- 9780195058093 (hardcover)
- 0195058100 (pbk.)
- 9780195058109 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98023122
- OCLC
- 39051053
- Author
- Skidmore, Thomas E.
- Title
- Brazil : five centuries of change / Thomas E. Skidmore.
- Imprint
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
- Series
- Latin American histories
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-250) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR F2521 .S54 1999