Chapter 11. Brazil: The Awakening Giant

 

Map of Brazil (1519) from the Miller Atlas

  1. Timeline for Brazil, 1500-Present
  2. List of Brazilian Heads of State
  3.  Brazilian Profiles and Personalities:
    1. Getúlio Vargas
    2. Jucelino Kubitschek
    3. João Goulart
    4. Fernando Henrique Cardoso
    5. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
    6. Dilma Rousseff
  4. Moments and Events in Brazil:
    1. Essay #27: “A Romanticism of Slavery and the Plantation Economy: Analysis of Coffee Gatherers in Rio by Johann Moritz Rugendas,” by Erika Kohmen
    2. Essay #28: “Dom Pedro II’s Acceptance of Exile,” by Molly Quinn
    3. Essay #29: “Casa Grande e Senezala and the Formation of a New Brazilian Identity,” by Emma Wohl
    4. Essay #30: “Brasilia: Constructing a Modern Identity,” by Cos Tollerson
    5. Essay #31: “Amnesty, Amnesia, and Moral Reparation in Brazil,” by Rex Nielson
  5. Travels in Brazil:
    1. Travelogue #15: Thomas Ewbank. Life in Brazil (1856)
      1. Accompanying Analysis: “Thomas Ewbank’s Depiction of Cruelty to Brazilian Slaves,” by Ryan Patrico
    2. Travelogue #16: Louis Aggasiz. A Journey in Brazil (1868)
      1. Accompanying Analysis: “The Agassizes Take Brazil: The Foreigners’ Approach,” by Caroline Landau
    3. Travelogue #17: Jack Harding. I Like Brazil: A Close-up of a Good Neighbor (1941)
      1. Accompanying Analysis: “Travels in an Age of Ideology,” by Tyler Lucero
    4. Travelogue #18: Francisco Michelen y Rojas. Exploración oficial por la primera vez desde el norte de la America del Sur…Viaje a Rio de Janeiro (1867)
      1. Accompanying Analysis: “Views from the Periphery: Brazil’s 19th Century Expansionism from a Venezuelan Perspective,” by Thayse Leal Lima
  6. Primary Documents:
    1. Document #31: “On Slavery in Brazil,” Thomas Ewbank (1856)
    2. Document #32: State Department Telegram to Ambassador Lincoln Gordon (1964)
    3. Document #33: “Letter to Pope Paul VI,” Marcos Settamini Pena de Arruda (1971)
    4. Document #34: “Speech of the President of the Republic in the ceremony installing the Truth Commission,” Dilma Rousseff (2012)
  7. Discussion Questions
  8. Further Reading