History 367: History of Brazil

Dr. Eve Buckley

E-mail

Phone: (302) 831-0793

Office: 123 John Munroe Hall

Office Hours: Mon. and Wed. 11:00-12:00

Course Syllabus

Final exam

Lecture 1: Geography & historical overview

Lecture 2: Discovery & colonization

Lecture 3: Indians in colonial Brazil

Lecture 4: Sugar & Slavery

Lecture 7: Independence

Lecture 8: Liberalism

Lecture 9: Coffee

Lecture 10: The politics of race in Brazil

Lecture 11: Positivism & the Republican movement

Lecture 13: Abolition, the Republic & Canudos

Lecture 14: Modernization & marginality, 1900-1920

Lecture 15: Getúlio Vargas, 1930-1945

Lecture 17: Vargas-era propaganda; intro Carolina

Lecture 18: Kubitschek & Brasilia, 1950s (also Carolina)

Lecture 20: Dictatorship & Development, 1964-85

Lecture 21: Responses to authoritarianism

Lecture 23: Liberation theology & MST (agrarian reform)

Lecture 24: Challenges for Brazil’s democracy, c. 1990

Lecture 25: Challenges for Brazil’s democracy, cont’d.