The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)

Complementing traditional views with fresh ones, The Brazil Reader’s historical selections range from early colonization to the present day, with sections on imperial and republican Brazil, the days of slavery, the Vargas years, and the more recent return to democracy. They include letters, photographs, interviews, legal documents, visual art, music, poetry, fiction, reminiscences, and scholarly analyses. They also include observations by ordinary residents, both urban and rural, as well as foreign visitors and experts on Brazil. Probing beneath the surface of Brazilian reality—past and present—The Reader looks at social behavior, women’s lives, architecture, literature, sexuality, popular culture, and strategies for coping with the travails of life in a country where the affluent live in walled compounds to separate themselves from the millions of Brazilians hard-pressed to find food and shelter. Contributing to a full geographic account—from the Amazon to the Northeast and the Central-South—of this country’s singular multiplicity, many pieces have been written expressly for this volume or were translated for it, having never previously been published in English.

This second book in The Latin America Readers series will interest students, specialists, travelers for both business and leisure, and those desiring an in-depth introduction to Brazilian life and culture.

• A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories)
• A Death in Brazil
• Children of God's Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil
• Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture)
• Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power
• The Slum (Library of Latin America)
• Brazil: A Biography
• Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society (New Approaches to the Americas)
• The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
• Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, 2nd Edition (Latin American Histories)