Table of Contents

Preface An Earthly Paradise Early Brazil Independence and Empire The Republic (1889-1930) The Vargas Era (1930-1954) Dictatorship and Democracy (1954-1999) Political Culture Social and Economic Realities Appendix Glossary of Selected Terms Bibliographical Essay Index

About the Author

ROBERT M. LEVINE is Director of the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Miami and the author of over a dozen books on Latin American and Cuba including Tropical Diaspora and the forthcoming Cambridge Concise History of Cuba.

Reviews

'This easy-to-read book by Robert Levine chronicles the history of Brazil from its recorded founding by the Portuguese in 1500 through to the beginning of the second presidential term of Fernando Cardoso. It reads like a novel, concisely covering most of the significant events and issues in the development of the largest Latin American country.' The British Bulletin of Publications on Latin America, the Caribbean, Portugal and Spain