Brazil: a biography

by Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz

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Title Statements

Full title :Brazil : a biography / Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018
Edition:First American edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018

Notes

Includes index.

Originally published: Brasil: uma Biografia : Companhia das Letras, Brazil, 2015.

The Physical Object

Description:780 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780374280499, 0374280495
oclc:on1050819801
LC Classification:F2510
Dewey Decimal:981

Introduction: "Brazil is just nearby" -- First came the name, and then the land called Brazil -- The sugar civilization: bitter for the many, sweet for a few -- Tit for tat: slavery and the naturalization of violence -- Gold! -- Revolt, conspiracy and sedition in the tropical paradise -- Ship ahoy! a court at sea -- Dom João and his court in the tropics -- The father leaves, the son remains -- Independence habemus: instability in the First empire -- Regencies, or the sound of silence -- The second reign: at last, a nation in the tropics -- The end of the monarchy in Brazil -- The first republic: the people take to the streets -- Samba, malandragem, authoritarianism: the birth of modern Brazil -- Yes, we have democracy! -- The 1950s and 1960s: bossa- nova, democracy and underdevelopment -- On a knife edge: dictatorship, opposition and resistance -- On the path to democracy: the transition to civilian power and the ambiguities and legacy of the military dictatorship -- Conclusion: history is not arithmetic.