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A Concise History of Brazil

A Concise History of Brazil

A Concise History of Brazil

2nd Edition
Boris Fausto, Universidade de São Paulo
Sergio Fausto, Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso
August 2014
Hardback
9781107036208

    The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil offers a sweeping yet accessible history of Latin America's largest country. Boris Fausto examines Brazil's history from the arrival of the Portuguese in the New World through the long and sometimes rocky transition from independence in 1822 to democracy in the twentieth century. In a completely new chapter, his son Sergio Fausto, a prominent political scientist, brings the history up to the present, focusing on Brazil's increasing global economic importance as well as its continued democratic development and the challenges the country faces to meet the higher expectations of its people.

    • Readable and accessible
    • New and updated edition
    • Covers over 500 years of Brazilian history

    Product details

    August 2014
    Hardback
    9781107036208
    484 pages
    218 × 147 × 33 mm
    0.68kg
    3 maps
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Colonial Brazil (1500–1822)
    • 2. Imperial Brazil (1822–89)
    • 3. The first republic (1889–1930)
    • 4. The Vargas state (1930–45)
    • 5. The democratic experiment (1945–64)
    • 6. The military government and the transition to democracy (1964–84)
    • 7. Modernization under democracy (1985–2010).
      Author
    • Boris Fausto , Universidade de São Paulo

      Boris Fausto is a renowned Brazilian historian and political scientist. He is a retired Professor of Political Science at the University of São Paulo.

    • Sergio Fausto , Instituto Fernando Henrique Cardoso

      Sergio Fausto is a political scientist and executive director of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute, a Brazilian think tank.