A Concise History of Brazil

The second edition of A Concise History of Brazil features a new chapter that covers the critical time period from 1990 to the present.

Boris Fausto (Author), Sergio Fausto (Contributions by)

9781107635241, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 August 2014

472 pages, 3 maps
21.5 x 13.9 x 2.6 cm, 0.59 kg

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.

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).

Subject Areas: Hispanic & Latino studies [JFSL4], Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], History [HB]