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A History of Brazil / E. Bradford Burns.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Edition: third editionDescription: 1 online resource : 35 photosContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231079556
  • 9780231531283
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 981 22
LOC classification:
  • F2521 .B89 1993eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions: New Challenges and Continuities -- 2. The Colonial Experience -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. Modernization and Continuity -- 5. Change and Continuity -- 6. The New Brazil -- 7. The Challenge of Change -- 8. Reform, Radicalization, and Reaction -- 9. The Past as Present -- Appendix 1: Chiefs of State of Brazil -- Appendix 2: A Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History -- A Glossary of Portuguese Words Used in the Text -- The Novel as History: A Bibliographic Essay -- Index
Summary: Here is a new edition of the book generally acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Brazil. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to include expanded treatment of intellectual, social, and popular history, and to provide increased coverage of labor, blacks, women, and the military in Brazilian history.Complete in breadth and chronological span, A History of Brazil is a panoramic interpretation of the Brazilian past from discovery to the present that treats the economic, social, cultural, and political evolution of Latin America's largest nation.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780231531283

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Interactions: New Challenges and Continuities -- 2. The Colonial Experience -- 3. Nation Building -- 4. Modernization and Continuity -- 5. Change and Continuity -- 6. The New Brazil -- 7. The Challenge of Change -- 8. Reform, Radicalization, and Reaction -- 9. The Past as Present -- Appendix 1: Chiefs of State of Brazil -- Appendix 2: A Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History -- A Glossary of Portuguese Words Used in the Text -- The Novel as History: A Bibliographic Essay -- Index

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Here is a new edition of the book generally acclaimed as the best single-volume history of Brazil. It has been thoroughly revised and updated to include expanded treatment of intellectual, social, and popular history, and to provide increased coverage of labor, blacks, women, and the military in Brazilian history.Complete in breadth and chronological span, A History of Brazil is a panoramic interpretation of the Brazilian past from discovery to the present that treats the economic, social, cultural, and political evolution of Latin America's largest nation.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)