A Concise History of Brazil
2nd Edition
Published on 11. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
472 pages
978-1-107-63524-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
3 Maps
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
677 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-63524-1 (9781107635241)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Boris Fausto
A Concise History of Brazil
E-Book
07/2014
2nd Edition
Cambridge University Press
€23.49
Available for download
Previous edition
Book
04/1999
Cambridge University Press
€27.22
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Persons
Boris Fausto is a renowned Brazilian historian and political scientist. He is a retired Professor of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo. Sergio Fausto is a political scientist and executive director of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute, a Brazilian think tank.
Content
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).