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Brazil
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extensive links to
Colonial and pre Independence Brazil
casahistoria:
Latin America visit the
casahistoria general Latin American page for many more background sites.
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 Documents
for the history of Brazil. A selection of documents on aspects of
Brazil´s history and society.
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Overview of Brazilian
history Links to sites with Brazilian interest.
Provides an
overview of Brazilian history that includes, The Empire, The Republic and
post-war Brazil. Produced by Brazilian
Consul in San Francisco.
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Biblioteca
Nacional Contains documents online and has special exhibitions of
historical materials. Rapidly expanding rede de memoria (network of
memories) resource. In Portuguese but easily navigable. Contains many
digitalised documents as well as images & ephemera.
(Good variety of digital images
here)
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Overview of Brazilian history
Provide a basic, starter, overview of Brazilian history that includes,
The Empire, The Republic and post-war Brazil. Produced by Brazilian Consular
Service
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Commanding Heights: Brazil Timeline This is a useful one from the US PBS.
Click on a heading at the top to change the focus of the timeline and get a
different set of dates & events!
Overview of
Political |
Economic |
Social |
Environmental |
Rule of Law |
Trade Policy |
Money dates and Graphs of
Growth |
Income |
Inflation |
Unemployment |
Well-being |
Trade Volume |
Trade (CAB) |
Spending
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Timeline
(to 1919) from the (bilingual) The United States and Brazil: Expanding
Frontiers, Comparing Cultures site of
the new Library of congress site. Well presented with links to themes
and documents.
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Country Profile, Brazil
from the BBC, linked to
History Timeline of key events in Brazil
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Photographs and other Images Data Base Very good collection from the
University of Miami
and contains copies
of original documents from archives in Latin America accessed by
University of Miami faculty and students as well as photographs useful for
analysis.
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Brazilian
Government Document Digitization Project
Center for Research
Libraries project to "digitize executive branch serial documents issued
by Brazil's national government during the period between 1821 and 1993,
and by its provincial governments from the earliest available for each
province to the end of the Empire to 1889."
For current developments to the
national history themes:
- Yahoo Brazil news
excellent resource for current news items (in English) on Brazil
- Lanic Newsroom:
Texas Univ site for links to the recent news themes on Latin America in
general
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2. Independence & Empire, 1821-1889
Political
narrative and overview
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 Brazil
Country Study: US Library of Congress. Links to key sections:
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1821-1889
by Donald J. Mabry
Straightforward account from Historical Text Archive
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The Imperial Period
Clear essay from the (bilingual) The United States and Brazil: Expanding
Frontiers, Comparing Cultures site
of the US Library of Congress. Well presented with links to themes and
documents.
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History of Brazil - Century XVIII and XIX
from Brazil travel Despite its name,
this site provides a thorough history chronology & outline in detail
complete with useful cross links to other sites.
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19th Century
by Sarwat Shafiq Mahmood Straightforward account from Historical Text
Archive
Dom Pedro I
Dom Pedro II
Princess Isabel (1846-1921)
essay from the (bilingual) The United States and Brazil: Expanding
Frontiers, Comparing Cultures site
of the US Library of Congress.
Revolts, Revolutions and Rebellions
Economics
Brazil: When El Dorado Was Here Rita Shannon Koeser
tells the story of Manaus, rubber capital of Brazil and 19th
century boom town.
Of Rubber and Blood in Brazilian Amazon Looks at the
story of Brazilians drafted to produce rubber for the USA during WW2
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‘Labour Question’ in Nineteenth Century Brazil: railways, export agriculture
and labour scarcity Detailed research paper by Lucia Lamounier (LSE,
2000) examines labour relations associated with the building of railways and
expansion of export agriculture. Focus is post slavery 1850s-1880s when the
`labour question' became pressing. First 20 pages are a good account of
railway building in Brazil.
Social Networks and
innovation in the South American industry during the pre-refrigeration
era: Southern Brazil and Uruguay in comparison Essay giving a clear
overview of the development of the beef industry before refrigeration.
By Stephen Bell, University of California.
see also
the Slavery in Brazil
section of the casahistoria Portuguese Brazil site
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3. Wars of the Empire, 1821-1889
Triple Alliance War, 1864-70:
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4. Republic
1889-1964
Political
narrative and overview
History of the Republic
(list of governments since 1889)
The Republic
from the (bilingual) The United
States and Brazil: Expanding Frontiers, Comparing Cultures site
of the US Library of Congress. Well presented with links to themes and
documents.
Brazilian Chronology (Independence onwards)
from Historical Text Archive
Political Political Institutions
(Source Brazilian Embassy, Washington)
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1899-1964
Straightforward account
from Historical Text Archive
History of Brazil - Century XX from Brazil travel Despite its name, this site provides a
thorough history chronology & outline in detail complete with useful
cross links to other sites.
Immigration
- History of
Immigration in Brazil. Clear overview of immigration by Spanish,
Italians, Germans, Japanese, Portuguese and Middle Eastern groups
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Immigration Clear, detailed site looks at immigration to Brazil
(bottom of page has links to essays on separate European countries of
origins)
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Brasilien 1889 - 1985
Von der Ersten Republik bis zum Ende der
Militärdiktatur. Dr. Ursula Prutsch, Institut für Geschichte der
Universität Wien. Concise, illustrated - in German. A key element is the
impact of European (especially Germanic immigration)
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Japanese Immigration in Brazil
- The Kasato Maru and the First Immigrants By Patricia
Ribeiro, About.com Article outlines early 20th century
immigration and places it in political context. Good links for further study
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Brasília
This page on Brasília examines some of the reasons why Brasília was built
and describes what has come of this modernist city since it was completed in
1960. Other worthwhile sites on Brasilia are:
Civil Wars, Coups & Revolts
Vargas 1930-54
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5. Military Rule 1964-85
The Military
Regimes For casahistoria links to the military regimes of other Latin
American states at this time
Repression
- 20 Exemplary
Cases Torture, 1964-1980. Examples from the
records of the torture used during military rule
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Brazil
1961-1964:Introducing the marvelous new world of Death Squads.
Background to the coup excerpted from the book Killing Hope by
William Blum
- Torture in Brazil
1970 New York Review of Books article. Includes letter by political
prisoners and women prisoners of
Ilha das Flores describing
the oppression & torture of the military regime. Graphic.
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Brazilian sites (in Portuguese) that focus on the repression &
terrorism of the military regime (all can be google translated into
English)
- Lembrar É
Resistir Site based on a a theatrical piece, "Lembrar É Resistir"
(To Remember is to Resist), staged in what had been the downtown DOPS
headquarters in São Paulo. Ran for over a year, with a cast including
former torture victims.
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Terrorismo Nunca Mais (no
more terror) Remembering the victims of terrorism
- Centro de
Documentação Eremias Delizoicov (Documentation Centre for the
disappeared and dead)
Brazil: Records on Suppression Destroyed
Guardian
2004 item by Vivian Sequera explaining how Brazil's army burned
all documents about the suppression of a 1970s insurgency against the
military dictatorship
The US & the Military Regime
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 US Role in Overthrow of Goulert Govt Declassified Documents shed light
on US Role Documents revealed by US National Security Archive show US role
in overthrow of Joao Goulart. Includes link to
audio tape
of President Johnson urging US take "every step that we can" to support
coup.
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Clerics, exiles, and academics: Opposition to the Brazilian Military
dictatorship in the United States, 1969-1974 Latin American Politics and
Society, 2003 by James N Green Argues that between 1969 and 1974, a small
group of church activists, exiled Brazilians, and academics introduced the
issue of human rights in Latin America into the U.S. national body politic &
laid the groundwork for a broader solidarity movement with Latin American
popular struggles in the late 1970s and 1980s. Very thorough, but long
article.
Aspects of the Military Regime
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Secret Dialogues: Church State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in
Authoritarian Brazil 2005 Review article by Zaverucha, Jorge of, Kenneth
S. Serbin’s Secret Dialogues: Church State Relations, Torture, and Social
Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Outlines the Catholic Church effort to
come to an accommodation (the Bipartite) with the generals
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The Element of Cross-Class Participation in Peruvian and Brazilian Women's
Movements during Times of Political Change Women
in Peru, whose political organizations usually consisted of one class, made
little impact on their new government's policies. In contrast, Brazilian
women who managed to maintain multi-class organizations were able to
influence their government. By Erica Baca, University of Utah §
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Image database of the Brazilian military regime &
Political songs of the Brazilian military regime (Both
need internet explorer browsers)
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