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).

Acknowledgments  xv
Introduction  1
I. Conquest and Colonial Rule, 1500-1579  1
II. Sugar and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1580-1694  49
III. Gold and the New Colonial Order, 1695-1807   91
IV. The Portuguese Royal Family in Rio de Janeiro, 1801-1821  131
V. From Independence to the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1822-1850  163
VI. Coffee, the Empire, and Abolition, 1851-1888  205
VII. Republican Brazil and the Onset of Modernization, 1889-1929  261
VIII. Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930-1945  321
IX. Democratic Governance and Developmentalism, 1946-1964  363
X. The Generals in Power and the Fight for Democracy, 1964-1985  427
XI. Redemocratization and the New Global Economy, 1895-Present  497
Suggestions for Further Reading  547
Brazil in the Movies  557
Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources  567
Index  577
 

James N. Green, Victoria Langland, and Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, editors