Welcome to the companion website to the 2021 third edition of James N. Green and Thomas E. Skidmore’s textbook Brazil: Five Centuries of Change, published by Oxford University Press.
The goal of the web companion to Brazil: Five Centuries of Change is to provide both students of the textbook and those generally interested in Brazilian history with resources and images related to Brazil. The textbook provides a detailed and thorough history of the country; the website brings it to life.
New to the 3rd Edition:
- More information about Indigenous people of Brazil during the colonial period, the Empire and the Republic
- An emphasis on the roles of women in the history of Brazil
- Recent scholarship on race, slavery and lives of Afro-descendants
- More information on new social movements, including feminist, Black and LGBTQI+ movements during the democratisation process in the 1970s and 80s.
What the website offers:
- A comprehensive timeline of Brazilian political, social, economic, and cultural history.
- Images, discussion questions, essays, and charts organized according to topic within each chapter.
- Theme pages with information on recurring threads within Brazilian history.
- A glossary of terms found in the textbook
- Brazilian films with direct links to trailers/full-length movies organized by chapter.
- A list of recommended historic literature and additional bibliographic sources organized by chapter and theme.