Thomas E. Skidmore 
Brazil [PDF ebook] 
Five Centuries of Change

Introduction: Why Read About Brazil? CHAPTER 1. BIRTH AND GROWTH OF COLONIAL BRAZIL: 1500-1750 The Country the Portuguese Created in the New World The Colonial Economy and Society Miscegenation: Biological and Cultural The Beginnings of a Luso-Brazilian Culture CHAPTER 2. CRISIS OF THE COLONIAL SYSTEM AND EMERGENCE OF AN INDEPENDENT BRAZIL: 1790-1830 The Economics and Politics of Post-1750 Brazil The Portuguese Court Comes to Brazil CHAPTER 3. REVOLT, CONSOLIDATION, AND WAR: 1830-1870 Uprisings under the Regency Recentralization The Role of Pedro II The Rise of Coffee The Emerging Problems with Slavery as an Institution The Question of Abolition The Paraguayan War CHAPTER 4. MAKING BRAZIL "MODERN": 1870-1910 The End of the Empire Coffee Fluctuations, Emerging Industry, and Urban Labor CHAPTER 5. WORLD WAR I, THE GREAT DEPRESSION, AND DICTATORSHIP: 1910-1945 The Shock of World War I New Currents in the 1920`s The Revolution of 1930 Getulio Vargas as Dictator CHAPTER 6. DEMOCRACY UNDER VARGAS, HALCYON DAYS WITH KUBITSCHEK, AND A MILITARY COUP: 1945-1964 The 1945 Election and the Dutra Period Vargas Returns A Socioeconomic Profile of Brazil in the Late 1940s and 1950s A New President, Juscelino Kubitschek, Elected The Brief Presidency of Janio Guadros The Succession of Joao Goulart CHAPTER 7. RULE OF THE MILITARY: 1964-1985 The Generals Search for a Political Base The Arrival of the Guerrillas Culture and the Generals The Economic "Miracle" Wrought by the Authoritarians The Road to Redemocratization CHAPTER 8. REDEMOCRATIZATION; NEW HOPE, OLD PROBLEMS: 1985- Sarney and His Challenges The Debt Crisis and the Economy Widening Gaps Between Rich and Poor Public Health: The Fish That Swam Upstream Changes Affecting Women Race Relations The Political Spectrum in the New Democracy The Collor Debacle Another Vice-President in Command Back to Stabilization: The Plano Real The Presidential Election of 1994 Epilogue Suggestions for further Readings