Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Interactions: New Challenges and Continuities
The Land
The Indian
The European
Discovery and Challenges
Patterns for the Future
2. The Colonial Experience
Social Amalgamation
Territorial Expansion
Economic and Political Dependency
3. Nation Building
Psychological and Intellectual Formation of Nationhood
The Braganzas in Brazil
Political Independence
Chaos Into Order
4. Modernization and Continuity
Coffee as a Motor of Change
Material Transformation
Progress and Dependency
Statesmen and Diplomats
5. Change and Continuity
New Social Groups and New Ideas
Abolition, Immigration, and Labor
The Middle Groups and the Military
Incorporating Rural Folk into Capitalism
6. The New Brazil
The Old Republic Ascending
The Triumph of Diplomacy
Exploiting the Amazon
The Decline of the Old Republic
7. The Challenge of Change
New Themes in History
Intellectual and Political Ferment
Shifting Patterns of Power
Nationalism and Industrialization
8. Reform, Radicalization, and Reaction
Democratization
Developmental Nationalisms
Growing Pains
A Political Surprise
The Promise or Threat of Reform
9. The Past as Present
Military Dictatorship
The Masquerade of Democracy
Frontiers of Challenge
Appendix 1: Chiefs of State of Brazil
Appendix 2: A Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History
A Glossary of Portuguese Words Used in the Text
The Novel as History: A Bibliographic Essay
Index