The following sources, all available in English, provide excellent context and analysis on the topics presented on this site.

COLONIAL BRAZIL

Alden, Dauril. Royal Government in Colonial Brazil: With Special Reference to the Administration of the Marquis of Lavradio, Viceroy, 1769–1779. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1968.

Bethell, Leslie, ed. Colonial Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Boxer, C. R. The Golden Age of Brazil: Growing Pains of a Colonial Society, 1695–1750. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1962.

Capistrano de Abreu, João. Chapters of Brazil’s Colonial History, 1500–1800. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Dean, Warren. With Broadax and Firebrand: The Destruction of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1995.

Diffie, Bailey W.  A History of Colonial Brazil, 1500–1792. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1987.

Freyre, Gilberto. The Masters and Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986.

______. New World in the Tropics. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971.

Furtado, Celso. The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times. Berkeley, Calif.: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Hemming, John. Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978.

______. Amazon Frontier: The Defeat of the Brazilian Indians. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Higgins, Kathleen J. “Licentious Liberty” in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabará, Minas Gerais. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.

Israel, Jonathan. The Expansion of Tolerance: Religion in Dutch Brazil (1624–1654). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2007.

Lang, James. Portuguese Brazil: The King’s Plantation. New York: Academic Press, 1979.

Langfur, Hal. The Forbidden Lands: Colonial Identity, Frontier Violence, and the Persistence of Brazil’s Eastern Indians, 1750–1830. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Macdonald, N. P.  The Making of Brazil: Portuguese Roots 1500–1822.  Sussex: The Book Guild Ltd, 1996.

Mattoso, Katia M. de Queirós. To Be a Slave in Brazil, 1550–1888. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986.

Maxwell, Kenneth. Conflicts and Conspiracies: Brazil and Portugal, 1750–1808. Cambridge, 1973.

Metcalf, Alida. Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana de Paraíba, 1580–1822. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1992.

______. Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil, 1500–1600. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2005.

Moog, Vianna. Bandeirantes and Pioneers. New York: George Brasiller, 1964.

Morse, Richard M. The Bandeirantes: The Historical Role of the Brazilian Pathfinders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965.

Nazzari, Muriel. Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in São Paulo, Brazil, 1600–1900. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1991.

Prado Júnior, Caio. The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1967.

Russell-Wood, A. J. R. Fidalgos and Philanthropists: The Santa Casa da Misericôrdia of Bahia, 1550–1755. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1968.

______.  Slavery and Freedom in Colonial Brazil. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002.

Schwartz, Stuart B. Sovereignty and Society in Colonial Brazil: The High Court of Bahia and its Judges, 1609–1751. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1973.

______. Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society, 1550–1835. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

______. Slaves, Peasants, and Rebels: Reconsidering Brazilian Slavery. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1996.

Souza, Laura de Mello e. The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil. Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2003.

Sweet, James H. Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship and Relation in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Tannenbaum, Frank. Slave and Citizen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.

Wadsworth, James E. Agents of Orthodoxy: Honor, Status, and the Inquisition in Colonial Pernambuco, Brazil. Lanham, Md.: Rowman and Littlefield Publlishers, 2007.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRAZIL

Barickman, B. J.  A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Barman, Roderick J. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II of Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Baronov, David. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The “Liberation” of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2000.

Beattie, Peter M. The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and Nation in Brazil, 1864–1945. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Bethell, Leslie. The Abolition of Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil, and the Slave Trade Question, 1807–1869. Cambridge, 1970.

______, ed. Brazil: Empire and Republic, 1822–1930. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Bieber, Judy. Power, Patronage and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822–1889. Lincoln, Neb.: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1999.

Borges, Dain. The Family in Bahia, 1870–1945. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.

Conrad, Robert Edgar. Children of God’s Fire: A Documentary History of Black Slavery in Brazil. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1984.

______. The Destruction of Brazilian Slavery, 1850–1888. Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1993.

Costa, Emilia Viotti da. The Brazilian Empire: Myths and Histories. Revised edition. Durham, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Dawsey, Cyrus B. and James M. Dawsey, eds. The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil. Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, 1995.

Dean, Warren. Rio Claro: A Brazilian Plantation System, 1820-1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1976.

Degler, Carl N. Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971.

Dias, Maria Odila Silva. Power and Everyday Life: The Lives of Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

Eakin, Marshall. British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d’el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830–1930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1989.

Eisenberg, Peter L. The Sugar Industry in Pernambuco, 1840–1910: Modernization without Change. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1974.

Frank, Zephyr L. Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

Freyre, Gilberto. Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarch to Republic. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1986.

Graham, Richard. Britain and the Onset of Modernization in Brazil, 1850–1914. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

______. Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1990.

Graham, Sandra Lauderdale. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro. Cambridge, England: Cambridge Latin American Studies, 1988.

Graden, Dale Torston. Slavery to Freedom in Brazil: Bahia, 1835–1900. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 2006.

Griggs, William Clark. The Elusive Eden: Frank McMullan’s Confederate Colony in Brazil.  Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1987.

Hahner, June E. Civilian-Military Relations in Brazil: 1889–1898. Columbia, S.C.: University of  South Carolina Press, 1969.

Hanley, Anne G. Native Capital: Financial Institutions and Economic Development in São Paulo, 1850–1920. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005.

Holloway, Thomas. H., Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a 19th-Century City. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1993.

Horne, Gerald. The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave Trade. New York: New York University Press, 2007.

Kiddy, Elizabeth W. Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005.

Kittleson, Roger Alan. The Practice of Politics in Postcolonial Brazil: Porto Alegre, 1845–1895. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Kirkendall, Andrew J. Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century Brazil. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Kraay, Hendrik, ed. Afro-Brazilian Culture and Politics: Bahia, 1790–1990s. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.

______. Race, State, and Armed Forces in Independence-Era Brazil, Bahia, 1790s–1840s. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001.

Levine, Robert M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1992.

Lewin, Linda. Politics and Parentela in Paraiba: A Case Study of Family-Based Oligarchy in Brazil. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988.

______.  Surprise Heirs. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Meade, Teresa A. “Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.

McCreery, David. Frontier Goiás, 1822–1889. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Mosher, Jeffrey C. Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building: Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817–1850. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 2008.

Naro, Nancy Priscilla.  A Slave’s Place, A Master’s World: Fashioning Dependency in Rural Brazil. London: Continuum, 2000.

Needell, Jeffrey D. The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831–1871. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2006.

Nishida, Meiko. Slavery and Identity: Ethnicity, Gender, and Race in Salvador, Brazil, 1808–1888. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2003.

Peard, Julyan G. Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Medicine. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

Russell-Wood, A.J.R. ed. From Colony to Nation: Essays on the Independence of Brazil. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Santos, Martha S. Cleansing Honor with Blood: Masculinity, Violence, and Power in the Backlands of Northeast Brazil, 1845–1889. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz. The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870–1930. New York: Hill and Wang, 1999.

Stein, Stanley J. Vassouras: A Brazilian Coffee County, 1850–1890: The Roles of Planter and Slave in a Changing Plantation Society. New York: Antheneum, 1970.

Summerhill, William Roderick. Order Against Progress: Government, Foreign Investment, and Railroads in Brazil, 1854–1913. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Toplin, Robert Brent. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil. New York: Antheneum, 1992.

TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRAZIL

Alberto, Paulina L. Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-century Brazil. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2011

Albuquerque, Severino J. Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and Theater in Brazil. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Alvarez, Sonia E. Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women’s Movements in Transition Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1990.

Alves, Márcio Moreira. A Grain of Mustard Seed: The Awakening of the Brazilian Revolution. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1973.

Alves, Maria Helena Moreira. State and Opposition in Military Brazil. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 1985.

Andrews, George Reid. Blacks and Whites in São Paulo Brazil, 1888-1988. Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.

Besse, Susan K. Restructuring Patriarchy: The Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Bruneau, Thomas C. The Political Transformation of the Brazilian Catholic Church. London: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Burdick, John. Looking for God in Brazil: The Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil’s Religious Arena. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1993.

Butler, Kim D. Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition São Paulo and Salvador. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Caulfield, Sueann. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2000.

Chazkel, Amy. Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2011.

Chesnut, R. Andrew. Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Cortés, Carlos E.  Gaúcho Politics in Brazil: The Politics of Rio Grande do Sul, 1930–1964. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1974.

Dávila, Jerry. Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2003.

______. Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

Dean, Warren. The Industrialization of São Paulo. Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 1969.

Della Cava, Ralph. Miracle at Juazeiro. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

Diacon, Todd A. Millenarian Vision, Capitalist Reality: Brazil’s Contestado Rebellion, 1912–1916. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1991.

______. Stringing Together a Nation: Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon and the Construction of a Modern Brazil, 1906–1930. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.

Dunn, Christopher. Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 2001.

Erickson, Kenneth Paul. The Brazilian Corporative State and Working Class Politics. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1977.

Fernandes, Florestan. The Negro in Brazilian Society. New York: Antheneum, 1971.

______. Reflections on the Brazilian Counter-Revolution: Essays by Florestan Fernandes. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., 1981.

Font, Mauricio A. Coffee, Contention and Change in the Making of Modern Brazil. Oxford: Blakewell, 1990.

French, John. The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.

Furtado, Celso. The Economic Growth of Brazil: A Survey from Colonial to Modern Times. Berkeley, Calif.: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Gay, Robert. Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro.: A Tale of Two Favelas. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1994.

Graham, Richard. Feeding the City: From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860. Austin, Texas: University of Texas, 2010.

Green, James N. Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

______. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2010.

Hahner, June E. Emancipating the Female Sex: The Struggle for Women’s Rights in Brazil, 1850–1940. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990.

Haines, Gerald K. The Americanization of Brazil: A Study of U.S. Cold War Diplomacy in the Third World, 1945–1954. Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1989.

Hanchard, Michael George. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1945–1988. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Hellwig, David J. African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1992.

Hewitt, W. E. Base Christian Communities and Social Change in Brazil. University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Holloway, Thomas H. Immigrants on the Land: Coffee and Society in São Paulo, 1889–1934. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Holston, James. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Huggins, Martha. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998.

Huggins, Martha, Mika Haritos-Tatouros and Philip G. Zimbardo. Violence Workers: Police Torturers and Murderers Reconstruct Brazilian Atrocities.  Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.

Ianni, Octavio. Crisis in Brazil. Trans. by Phyllis B. Eveleth. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.

Ireland, Rowan. Kingdoms Come: Religion and Politics in Brazil. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

Johnson, Ollie Andrew III. Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964. Gainesville, Fla.: University Press of Florida, 2001.

Keck, Margaret E. The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992.

Kingstone, Peter R. and Timothy J. Power. Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

Leacock, Ruth. Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961–1969. Kent State University Press, 1990.

Lesser, Jeffrey. Welcoming the Undesirables: Brazil and the Jewish Question. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California, 1995.

______. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999.

_____. Discontented Diasporas: Japanese Brazilians and the Meaning of Ethnic Militancy, 1960–1980. Duke University Press, 2007.

Levine, Robert M. and José Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy. The Life and Death of Carolina Maria de Jesus. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.

Mariz, Cecília Loreto. Coping with Poverty: Pentecostals and Christian Base Communities in Brazil. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1994.

Maybury-Lewis, Biorn. The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers’ Trade Union Movement, 1964–1985. Philadelphia, Pa.: Temple University Press, 1992.

McCann, Bryan. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.

McCann, Jr. Frank D. The Brazilian-American Alliance, 1937–1945. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1973.

Nagle, Robin. Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil. New York: Routledge, 1997.

Oliven, Ruben. Tradition Matters: Modern Gaúcho Identity in Brazil. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.

Pereira, Anthony, W. The End of the Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961–1988. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997.

Pessar, Patricia R. From Fanatics to Folk: Brazilian Millenarianism and Popular Culture.  Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004.

Power, Timothy J. The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University, 2000.

Rogers, Thomas D. The Deepest Wounds: A Labor and Environmental History of Sugar in Northeast Brazil. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina, 2010.

Sadlier, Darlene J. Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the present. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2008.

Sansone, Livio. Blackness without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2003.

Seigel, Micol. Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009.

Serbin, Kenneth P. Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.

______. Needs of the Heart: A Social and Cultural History of Brazil’s Clergy and Seminaries. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.

Skidmore, Thomas E. Politics in Brazil, 1930–1964: An Experiment in Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967.

______. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964–85. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

______. Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993.

Smith, Joseph. Unequal Giants: Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Brazil, 1889–1930. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991.

Stepan, Alfred, The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Stepan, Nancy Leys. Beginnings of Brazilian Science: Oswaldo Cruz, Medical Research and Policy, 1890–1920. New York: Science History Publications, 1981.

______. “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender and Nation in Latin America. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Topik. Steven. Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1996.

Tota, Antônio Pedro, The Seduction of Brazil: the Americanization of Brazil During World War II. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, 2009.

Weinstein, Barbara. For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920–1964. Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1996.

Weis, W. Michael Cold Warriors & Coups D’etat: Brazilian-American Relations, 1945–64. Albuquerque, N.M.: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.

Welch, Cliff. The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University, 1999.

Williams, Daryle. Culture Wars in Brazil, The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2001.

Wirth, John D. The Politics of Brazilian Development, 1930–1954. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1970.

Wolfe, Joel. Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil’s Industrial Working Class, 1900–1955. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1993.

______. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Woodard, James P. A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigniorial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2009.