From the first encounters between the Portuguese and indigenous peoples in 1500 to the current political turmoil, the history of Brazil is much more complex and dynamic than the usual representations of it as the home of Carnival, soccer, the Amazon, and samba would suggest. This extensively revised and expanded second edition of the best-selling Brazil Reader dives deep into the past and present of a country marked by its geographical vastness and cultural, ethnic, and environmental diversity. Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time and which range from sermons by Jesuit missionaries and poetry to political speeches and biographical portraits of famous public figures, intellectuals, and artists—this collection presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half millennium. Whether outlining the legacy of slavery, the roles of women in Brazilian public life, or the importance of political and social movements, The Brazil Reader provides an unparalleled look at Brazil’s history, culture, and politics.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500–1579
- Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal
- Captaincy Charter Granted to Duarte Coelho
- Letter from a Jesuit Friar
- Impressions of a French Calvinist
- Indigenous Experiences of Colonization
- On Cannibals
- On the Customs of the Indians of the Land
- A Description of the Tupinambá
- History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil
- Portraits: Hans Staden
- II. Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694
- Letter from a Portuguese Trader
- Exploration of the Amazon
- The Inquisition in Brazil
- Excerpts from the Sermon on the Rosary
- The Sugar Industry
- The Dutch Siege of Olinda and Recife
- An Eyewitness Account of the First Battle of Guararapes
- Two Documents in the War against Palmares
- Bandeirantes
- Portraits: Count Johan Maurits von Nassau-Seigen
- III. Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695–1807
- The Brazilian Gold Rush
- The Minas Uprising of 1720
- Expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil
- Portugal, Brazil, and The Wealth of Nations
- Poems from Baroque Minas
- Tiradentes’s Sentence
- The Tailors’ Revolt
- Letter from a Sugar Mill Owner
- Portraits: Chica da Silva de Oliveira
- IV. The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
- The Royal Family’s Journey to Brazil
- Letter from a Son in Brazil to His Father in Portugal
- Treaty between Portugal and Great Britain
- Rio de Janeiro’s First Medical School
- The Influence of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil
- Petition for Pedro I to Remain in Brazil
- Speech Given at the Cortes (National Assembly) of Lisbon
- Portraits: Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil
- V. From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822–1850
- On the Declaration of Brazilian Independence
- Acclamation of Pedro as Emperor of Brazil
- On Slavery
- From the Journal of Maria Graham
- Portugal Recognizes the Brazilian Empire
- The Malê Revolt
- How to Write the History of Brazil
- Scenes from the Slave Trade
- Cruelty to Slaves
- The Praieira Revolution Manifesto to the World
- Portraits: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva
- VI. Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851–1888
- Memoirs of a Settler in Brazil
- O Guarani
- The U.S. Civil War and Slave Rebellions in Brazil
- The Slave Ship
- Victims and Executioners
- The Republican Manifesto
- Law of the Free Womb
- Early Brazilian Feminism
- Letters to the French Mineralogist Claude-Henri Gorceix
- Selections from Abolitionism
- A Critique of José de Alencar’s O Guarani
- Abolition Decree
- Portraits: Emperor Dom Pedro II
- VII. Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889–1929
- Hymn of the Proclamation of the Republic
- The Human Races
- Os Sertões or Rebellion in the Backlands
- The Owner’s Pastry Shop
- Revolt of the Whip
- Three Types of Bureaucrats
- On the Mestizo in Brazil
- Demands of the São Paulo General Strike of 1917
- Brazil and World War I
- The Cannibalist Manifesto (Manifesto Antropófago)
- Macunaíma
- Revolutionary Manifestos from the Tenentes Revolts
- An Essay on Brazilian Sadness
- Portraits: Tarsila do Amaral
- VIII. Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930–1945
- From the Platform of the Liberal Alliance
- Prestes’s Declaration about the Liberal Alliance
- The Masters and the Slaves
- Speech by the First Woman Elected to Congress in Brazil
- Manifesto of the National Liberating Alliance
- The Cordial Man
- Vargas and the Estado Novo
- Rubber and the Allies’ War Effort
- Portraits: Patrícia Galvão (Pagú)
- IX. Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946–1964
- Telenovelas in Constructing the Country of the Future
- The Oil Is Ours
- An Unrelenting Critic of Vargas
- Vargas’s Suicide Letter
- The Life of a Factory Worker
- Operation Pan America
- Excerpts from Child of the Dark
- Education as a Practice of Freedom
- Letter of Manumission for the Brazilian Peasant
- Brazil’s New Foreign Policy
- Development and the Northeast
- President João Goulart’s Speech at Central do Brasil
- March of the Family with God for Freedom
- The U.S. Government and the 1964 Coup d’État
- Portraits: Oscar Niemeyer
- X. The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964–1985
- Institutional Act No. 1
- A U.S. Senator Supports the New Military Government
- The Brazilian Revolution
- The Myth of Racial Democracy
- A Brazilian Congressional Representative Speaks Out
- Institutional Act No. 5
- Letter from the Ilha Grande Prison
- The Kidnapping of the U.S. Ambassador
- A Letter to Pope Paul VI
- Two Presidents at the White House
- National Security and the Araguaian Guerrillas
- What Color Are You?, National Household Sample Study, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
- Second-Wave Brazilian Feminism
- LGBT Rights and Democracy
- The Movement for Political Amnesty
- Lula’s May Day Speech to Brazilian Workers
- Portraits: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil
- XI. Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1985–Present
- Forty Seconds of AIDS
- Affirmative Action in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- A Young Voice from the MST
- World Social Forum Charter of Principles
- The Bolsa Família Program
- Music, Culture, and Globalization
- The Inaugural Speech of Brazil’s First Female President
- The June Revolts
- Portraits: Herbert Daniel
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Brazil in the Movies
- Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources
- Index
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