Brazil - Green, James

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Résumé :
James Green is Carlos Manuel de C?spedes Professor of Modern Latin American History at Brown University

Thomas E. Skidmore was one of the foremost American scholars of Brazil and the former Carlos Manuel de C?spedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University

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Biographie:
James Green is Carlos Manuel de C?spedes Professor of Modern Latin American History at Brown University

Thomas E. Skidmore was one of the foremost American scholars of Brazil and the former Carlos Manuel de C?spedes Professor of Latin American History at Brown University

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Sommaire:

• List of Exhibits and Images


• Preface


• Introduction Why Read a History of Brazil?


• Chapter 1 The Making of Colonial Brazil, 1500-1694


• The First Occupants of the Land


• Everyday Life, War, and Rituals


• Portuguese Overseas Expansion


• Early Consolidation of the Portuguese Monarchy


• Setting up a Global Trading Network


• The Portuguese Encounter Land to the West


• First European Impressions


• Portuguese Land Claims


• Brazilwood and Indigenous Slavery


• Go-betweens


• Imperial Reorganization


• French Claims


• The Sugar Industry


• Enslaved Africans


• Resistance to Slavery


• Unification of Spain and Portugal


• Dutch Occupation of the Northeast


• Emergence of the Myth of the Bandeirante


• Imperial Control


• Gold


• Chapter 2 A New Colonial Order, 1695-1821


• Manumission of slaves


• Religious Orders


• Conflicts in the Mining Region


• Tensions in the Northeast


• Pombaline Reforms


• Indigenous Resistance


• The Influence of Enlightenment Ideas


• The Mineira Conspiracy


• Tailors' Revolt in Salvador


• The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil


• Creating a New Portuguese America


• Indigenous Resistance


• Pernambuco Revolution, 1817


• A Portuguese Revolt and its Impact on Brazil


• Chapter 3 Independent Brazil and the Consolidation of a Nation, 1822-1850


• Brazilian Hierarchies


• A Constitution


• The Emperor's Tribulations


• The Regency


• Regional Revolts


• Recentralization


• Pedro II as Emperor


• The Rise of Coffee


• Land Ownership


• Growing Challenges to Slavery


• Chapter 4 Late Imperial Brazil, 1851-1889


• Gradually Ending Slavery


• The Emperor and His Pedestal


• The Paraguayan War


• The Effects of the War


• The Viscount of Mau?


• The Great Drought and the Amazon Rubber Boom


• New Roles for Middle-class Women


• Positivism, Republicanism, and the Military Question


• The Move toward Abolition


• Immigration


• The End of the Empire


• Chapter 5 Republican Brazil, 1889-1929


• Modernizing Brazil


• Whitening Brazil


• The Reality behind the Fa?ade


• Indigenous Brazil


• Coffee Price Fluctuations and Emerging Industry


• The Roots of Industrialization


• Worker Organization and Employers' Strategy


• Evaporation of the Oligarchical Consensus


• A Message from Below


• Economic Strains


• The Shock of World War I


• The Economy after the War


• Brazil's Uneven Development


• Rebellion in the Army


• The Modern Woman and an Emerging Feminist Movement


• Modernism, Brazilian Style


• Rise of Anti-Liberal Thought


• The Disintegration of the Old Politics


• The Revolution of 1930


• Chapter 6 Get?lio Vargas in Power, 1930-45


• Swing toward Centralization


• Electoral rights


• Ideological Polarization


• Get?lio 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...