Brazil: Essays on History and Politics (Open access titles) - Softcover

Bethell, Leslie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908857544 ISBN 13: 9781908857545

Verlag: University of London Press, 2018

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Reseña del editor:

Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume consists of seven essays by Leslie Bethell on major themes in modern Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin America; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The decline and fall of slavery (1850-1888); The long road to democracy; Populism; The failure of the Left. The essays are new, but they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly in Portuguese) and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirement as founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In an autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) Professor Bethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in UK (and, to a lesser extent, US) universities. Leslie Bethell is one of the few great Brazilianists, as foreign scholars of Brazil are called, of his and subsequent generations. Brazilianists engage in scholarship that has breadth and depth; illuminate Brazil as an object of study, asking the most important questions that can be asked about the country; and give voice to Brazilian experiences and perspectives. Leslie Bethell has done these things during his long career, and he continues to do so, as this collection of his recent essays on Brazilian history and politics demonstrates. Anthony Pereira, Director, Brazil Institute, King's College London

Biografía del autor:

Professor Leslie Michael Bethell is a critically-acclaimed English historian and Brazilianist who specialises in the study of 19th- and 20th-century Latin America, focusing on Brazil in particular. He is the sole editor of the eleven-volume Cambridge History of Latin America, a massive attempt at compiling and integrating the existing scholarship of Latin American studies.

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• Verlag: University of London Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1908857544
• ISBN 13: 9781908857545
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234