The Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics

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The Brazil Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Edited by: James N. Green , Victoria Langland and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2019

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The Latin America Readers

About this book

Containing over one hundred selections—many of which appear in English for the first time—this extensively revised and expanded second edition of the bestselling Brazil Reader presents the lived experience of Brazilians from all social and economic classes, racial backgrounds, genders, and political perspectives over the past half-millennia.

Author / Editor information

James N. Green is Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of Latin American History and Director of the Brazil Initiative at Brown University.

Victoria Langland is Associate Professor of History and Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan.

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz is Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo, Visiting Professor at Princeton University, and Curator at the Art Museum of São Paulo (MASP).

Reviews

"Now in its second edition, The Brazil Reader is much more than just an update; it is essentially a different volume. . . . This edition features a Brazilian historiographical influence that prioritizes documents written by Brazilian historical figures over those by foreign observers. This edition also has added attention to earlier historical periods that are imperative to understanding modern Brazil. More focus is given to recent views on race, gender, and culture. A suggestion to librarians: do not deselect the first edition. The differences between the two volumes merit keeping both. Essential. All levels."

-- M. L. Grover Choice

“The editors’ language and writing style is accessible to most readers and each section and chapter is expertly explained and outlined. . . . It should become a must-read volume for undergraduate and graduate students of Brazil, as well as the general public who are also interested in Brazil.”

-- Alan P. Marcus Journal of Latin American Geography

“The Brazil Reader . . . weaves the histories of blackness, indigeneity, and mestiçagem into the national narrative, and this alone makes the book a welcome contribution.”

-- Theodore W. Cohen Latin American Research Review

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History Regional and National History Latin America

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500–1579
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Letter to King Manuel I of Portugal Pêro Vaz de Caminha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	12
Captaincy Charter Granted to Duarte Coelho Dom João Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	18
Letter from a Jesuit Friar Manuel da Nóbrega Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
Impressions of a French Calvinist Nicolas Barre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Indigenous Experiences of Colonization Eduardo Viveiros de Castro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
On Cannibals Michel de Montaigne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	32
On the Customs of the Indians of the Land Pero de Magalhães Gândavo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
A Description of the Tupinambá Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	38
History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil Jean de Léry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	41
Portraits: Hans Staden Victoria Langland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
II, Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580–1694
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
Letter from a Portuguese Trader Francisco Soares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	53
Exploration of the Amazon Cristóbal de Acuña Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
The Inquisition in Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	59
Excerpts from the Sermon on the Rosary António Vieira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	64
The Sugar Industry Giovanni Antonio Andreoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	68
The Dutch Siege of Olinda and Recife Ambrósio Richsoffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	73
An Eyewitness Account of the First Battle of Guararapes Francisco Barreto de Meneses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	76
Two Documents in the War against Palmares Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
Bandeirantes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	84
Portraits: Count Johan Maurits von Nassau-Seigen James N. Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
III Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695–1807
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
The Brazilian Gold Rush Antonio Giovanni Andreoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	97
The Minas Uprising of 1720 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil Dom José Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	104
Portugal, Brazil, and The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	107
Poems from Baroque Minas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
Tiradentes’s Sentence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The Tailors’ Revolt Luís Gonzaga das Virgens e Veiga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Letter from a Sugar Mill Owner João Rodrigues de Brito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
Portraits: Chica da Silva de Oliveira Victoria Langland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	126
IV The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
The Royal Family’s Journey to Brazil Thomas O’Neill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Letter from a Son in Brazil to His Father in Portugal Luíz Joaquim dos Santos Marrocos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Treaty between Portugal and Great Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	140
Rio de Janeiro’s First Medical School Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
The Influence of the Haitian Revolution in Brazil Paulo José Vianna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
Petition for Pedro I to Remain in Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
Speech Given at the Cortes (National Assembly) of Lisbon Diogo Antônio Feijó Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	154
Portraits: Empress Maria Leopoldina of Brazil Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
V From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822–1850
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
On the Declaration of Brazilian Independence Padre Belchoir Pinheiro de Oliveira Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
Acclamation of Pedro as Emperor of Brazil José Martins Rocha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
On Slavery José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	173
From the Journal of Maria Graham Maria Dundas Graham Callcott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	176
Portugal Recognizes the Brazilian Empire Charles Stuart, Luiz José de Carvalho e Mello and Barão de Santo Amaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
The Malê Revolt João José Reis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	184
How to Write the History of Brazil Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
Scenes from the Slave Trade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
Cruelty to Slaves Thomas Ewbank Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
The Praieira Revolution Manifesto to the World Antônio Borges da Fonseca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	197
Portraits: José Bonifácio de Andrada e Silva Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	199
VI Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851–1888
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	205
Memoirs of a Settler in Brazil Thomas Davatz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
O Guarani José de Alencar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
The U.S. Civil War and Slave Rebellions in Brazil Francisco Primo de Souza Aguiar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
The Slave Ship Antônio Frederico de Castro Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Victims and Executioners Joaquim Manuel de Macedo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	228
The Republican Manifesto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	233
Law of the Free Womb José Maria da Silva Paranhos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	236
Early Brazilian Feminism Francisca Senhorinha da Motta Diniz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	240
Letters to the French Mineralogist Claude-Henri Gorceix Dom Pedro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
Selections from Abolitionism Joaquim Nabuco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	246
A Critique of José de Alencar’s O Guarani Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	250
Abolition Decree Rodrigo Augusto da Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	253
Portraits: Emperor Dom Pedro II Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
VII Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889–1929
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
Hymn of the Proclamation of the Republic José Joaquim de Campos da Costa de Medeiros e Albuquerque and Leopoldo Miguez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
The Human Races Raimundo Nina Rodrigues Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	271
Os Sertões or Rebellion in the Backlands Euclides da Cunha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
The Owner’s Pastry Shop Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
Revolt of the Whip, A Revolta da Chibata João Cândido Felisberto and Bulcão Vianna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
Three Types of Bureaucrats Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
On the Mestizo in Brazil João Batista Lacerda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	290
Demands of the São Paulo General Strike of 1917 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Brazil and World War I Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	298
The Cannibalist Manifesto (Manifesto Antropófago) Oswald de Andrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	300
Macunaíma Mário de Andrade Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	309
Revolutionary Manifestos from the Tenentes Revolts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	311
An Essay on Brazilian Sadness Paulo Prado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	316
Portraits: Tarsila do Amaral Victoria Langland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	318
VIII Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930–1945
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	321
From the Platform of the Liberal Alliance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	325
Prestes’s Declaration about the Liberal Alliance Luís Carlos Prestes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
The Masters and the Slaves Gilberto Freyre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	330
Speech by the First Woman Elected to Congress in Brazil Carlota Pereira de Queirós Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
Manifesto of the National Liberating Alliance Luís Carlos Prestes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	340
The Cordial Man Sérgio Buarque de Holanda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
Vargas and the Estado Novo Getúlio Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	349
Rubber and the Allies’ War Effort Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	353
Portraits: Patrícia Galvão (Pagú) James N. Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	358
IX Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946–1964
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	363
Telenovelas in Constructing the Country of the Future Esther Hamburger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	369
The Oil Is Ours Getúlio Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	374
An Unrelenting Critic of Vargas Carlos Lacerda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
Vargas’s Suicide Letter Getúlio Vargas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	380
The Life of a Factory Worker Joana de Masi Zero Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	383
Operation Pan America Juscelino Kubitschek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	387
Excerpts from Child of the Dark Carolina Maria de Jesus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
Education as a Practice of Freedom Paulo Freire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	396
Letter of Manumission for the Brazilian Peasant Francisco Julião Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	399
Brazil’s New Foreign Policy Jânio Quadros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	402
Development and the Northeast Celso Furtado Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	406
President João Goulart’s Speech at Central do Brasil João Goulart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
March of the Family with God for Freedom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	414
The U.S. Government and the 1964 Coup d’État Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	416
Portraits: Oscar Niemeyer Victoria Langland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	420
X The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964–1985
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
Institutional Act No. 1 Francisco dos Santos Nascimento Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	435
A U.S. Senator Supports the New Military Government Wayne Morse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	439
The Brazilian Revolution Caio Prado Júnior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	442
The Myth of Racial Democracy Abdias do Nascimento Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	445
A Brazilian Congressional Representative Speaks Out Márcio Moreira Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449
Institutional Act No. 5 Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
Letter from the Ilha Grande Prison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	454
The Kidnapping of the U.S. Ambassador Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	457
A Letter to Pope Paul VI Marcos Penna Sattamini de Arruda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	460
Two Presidents at the White House Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	466
National Security and the Araguaian Guerrillas Ernesto Geisel and Germano Arnoldi Pedrozo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	471
What Color Are You? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	474
Second-Wave Brazilian Feminism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	479
LGBT Rights and Democracy Aguinaldo Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	481
The Movement for Political Amnesty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	484
Lula’s May Day Speech to Brazilian Workers Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	489
Portraits: Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil James N. Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	492
XI Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1985–Present
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	497
Forty Seconds of AIDS Herbert Daniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	506
Affirmative Action in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Celso Lafer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	510
A Young Voice from the MST Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	514
World Social Forum Charter of Principles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	519
The Bolsa Família Program Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	523
Music, Culture, and Globalization Gilberto Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	526
The Inaugural Speech of Brazil’s First Female President Dilma Rousseff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	531
The June Revolts Marcos Nobre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	536
Portraits: Herbert Daniel James N. Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	541
Suggestions for Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
Brazil in the Movies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	557
Acknowledgment of Copyrights and Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	567
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	577

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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

December 6, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9780822371793

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Main content:

688

Other:

104 illustrations, incl. 13 in color

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822371793

eBook ISBN: 9780822371793

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