Brazil : Five Centuries of Change.
Title:
Brazil : Five Centuries of Change.
Author:
Skidmore, Thomas E.
ISBN:
9780199725892
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Series:
Latin American Histories
Contents:
Contents -- List of Exhibits -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Read About Brazil? -- Chapter 1 Birth and Growth of Colonial Brazil: 1500-1750 -- The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World -- How Could the Portuguese Do It? -- Securing the Frontiers -- How the Portuguese Administered the Colony -- The Peoples of Brazil -- The Colonial Economy and Society -- The Social Structure of the Portuguese New World -- Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural -- The Nature of the Colonial State and Church -- The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture -- Chapter 2 Crisis of the Colonial System and Emergence of an Independent Brazil: 1750-1830 -- The Economics and Politics of Post-1750 Brazil -- Tensions in the Late Eighteenth-Century Colony -- Conspiracies Against the Portuguese -- The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil -- Creating a New Portuguese America -- Social Hierarchies -- The New Monarchical System -- Chapter 3 Revolt, Consolidation, and War: 1830-70 -- Uprisings Under the Regency -- Recentralization -- The Role of Pedro II -- The Rise of Coffee -- The Emerging Problems with Slavery as an Institution -- The Question of Abolition -- The Paraguayan War -- Chapter 4 Making Brazil "Modern": 1870-1910 -- A New Generation and the Military Question -- Abolition and Its Aftermath: The Brazilian Way -- The End of the Empire -- Selling Brazil -- "Whitening" Brazil -- The Reality Behind the Facade -- Coffee Fluctuations, Emerging Industry, and Urban Labor -- The Roots of Industrialization -- Worker Organization and Employers' Strategy -- Evaporation of the Oligarchical Consensus -- A Message from Below -- Economic Strains -- Chapter 5 World War I, The Great Depression, and Dictatorship: 1910-45 -- The Shock of World War I -- The Economy After the War -- Brazil's Uneven Development -- New Currents in the 1920s -- Modernism, Brazilian Style.
Rise of Anti-Liberal Thought -- The Disintegration of the Old Politics -- The Revolution of 1930 -- Swing Toward Centralization -- Ideological Polarization -- Getúlio Vargas as Dictator -- The Vargas Style -- Corporatist Inroads -- A New Search for National Identity -- Juggling the International Options -- World War II and the Rise of U.S. Influence -- Collapse of the Dictatorship at Home -- Chapter 6 Democracy Under Vargas, Halcyon Days with Kubitschek, and a Military Coup: 1945-64 -- The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period -- Vargas Returns -- From Oligarch to Populist -- Vargas's Legislative Program Runs into Trouble -- Suicide -- A Socioeconomic Profile of Brazil in the Late 1940s and 1950s -- Regional Disequilibria and Migration -- Patterns of Urban and Rural Growth -- Social Stratification -- A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected -- Political Strategy -- The Economic Development Program -- Dealing with the World Economy -- The Brief Presidency of Jânio Quadros -- The Succession of João Goulart -- Populists Versus the Military -- The Economic Crisis Escalates -- Chapter 7 Rule of the Military: 1964-85 -- The Generals Search for a Political Base -- Growing Opposition, Growing Repression: 1964-67 -- Triumph of the Hard Line -- The Arrival of the Guerrillas -- Culture and the Generals -- The Effects of Repression -- Military Rule and Questions About Brazilian Political Culture -- The Economic "Miracle" Wrought by the Authoritarians -- The Benefits and Costs of Foreign Loans -- The Winners and Losers -- The Road to Redemocratization -- Battles Within the Officer Corps -- Manipulating the Electoral System -- Chapter 8 Redemocratization-New Hope, Old Problems: 1985- -- An Unintended Succession -- Sarney and the New Democracy -- The Cruzado Plan -- The Debt Crisis and the Economy -- Lost Investment -- The Brain Drain.
Widening Gaps Between Rich and Poor -- Education and Health Care -- Housing and Communications -- Public Health: The Fish That Swam Upstream -- Changes Affecting Women -- Race Relations -- Contemporary Culture -- The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy -- The Collor Debacle -- The Election -- The Policies -- The End -- Another Vice-President in Command -- Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real -- The Presidential Election of 1994 -- The Policies of the Cardoso Government -- Cardoso's Prospects -- Epilogue -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
Introduction: Why Read About Brazil?. CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND GROWTH OF COLONIAL BRAZIL: 1500-1750. The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World. The Colonial Economy and Society. Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural. The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture. CHAPTER 2. CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT BRAZIL: 1790-1830. The Economics and Politics of Post-1750 Brazil. The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil. CHAPTER 3. REVOLT, CONSOLIDATION, AND WAR: 1830-1870. Uprisings under the Regency. Recentralization. The Role of Pedro II. The Rise of Coffee. The Emerging Problems with Slavery as an Institution. The Question of Abolition. The Paraguayan War. CHAPTER 4. MAKING BRAZIL "MODERN": 1870-1910. The End of the Empire. Coffee Fluctuations, Emerging Industry, and Urban Labor. CHAPTER 5. WORLD WAR I, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND DICTATORSHIP: 1910-1945. The Shock of World War I. New Currents in the 1920's. The Revolution of 1930. Getulio Vargas as Dictator. CHAPTER 6. DEMOCRACY UNDER VARGAS, HALCYON DAYS WITH KUBITSCHEK, AND A MILITARY COUP: 1945-1964. The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period Vargas Returns. A Socioeconomic Profile of Brazil in the Late 1940s and 1950s. A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected. The Brief Presidency of Janio Guadros. The Succession of Joao Goulart. CHAPTER 7. RULE OF THE MILITARY: 1964-1985. The Generals Search for a Political Base. The Arrival of the Guerrillas. Culture and the Generals. The Economic "Miracle" Wrought by the Authoritarians. The Road to Redemocratization. CHAPTER 8. REDEMOCRATIZATION; NEW HOPE, OLD PROBLEMS: 1985-. Sarney and His Challenges. The Debt Crisis and the Economy. Widening Gaps Between Rich and Poor. Public Health: The Fish That Swam Upstream. Changes Affecting Women. Race Relations. The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy. The Collor Debacle. Another
Vice-President in Command. Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real. The Presidential Election of 1994. Epilogue. Suggestions for further Readings.
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