The Brazil reader
Subtitle: history, culture, politics
By: edited by Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti.
Contributors: Levine, Robert M.; Crocitti, John J.
Series: The Latin America readers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 527
Subjects: Brazil -- History; Brazil -- Social conditions; Brazil -- Economic conditions
Description: "Indispensable introduction to Brazil for students and general readers includes short scholarly articles, interviews, documents, photographs, and many autobiographical pieces. Begins with precontact indigenous peoples, but about half deals with Brazil since 1945. Topics include indigenous peoples, slavery, Vargas and labor, political protest, women, race relations, marginal groups, and popular culture. Overarching themes are mobility and repression"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [505]-509) and index.