A Concise History of Brazil / Edition 2

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.

ISBN-13: 9781107635241

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 08-11-2014

Pages: 472

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.20(d)

Series: Cambridge Concise Histories

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

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).