A brief history of Brazil
By: Teresa A. Meade.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Facts On File
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816077885
Subjects: Brazil -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Land and people before and after Portuguese exploration; title: (prehistory to 1530); title: The Portuguese colony (1530-1800); title: Society in early Brazil: slavery, patriarchy, and the church (1530-1889); title: From colony to republic (1800-1889); title: Constructing a nation of free laborers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; title: Society and politics in the first republic (1890-1930); title: From Getúlio Vargas to the military coup (1930-1964); title: From military dictatorship to democracy (1964-2002); title: Popular culture: music, sports, television, and cinema in today's Brazil; title: Brazil in the twenty-first century.