From the Book - Second edition, revised and updated.
Conquest and colonial rule, 1500-1579
Sugar and slavery in the Atlantic world, 1580-1694
Gold and the new colonial order, 1695-1807
The Portuguese royal family in Rio de Janeiro, 1808-1821
From independence to the abolition of the slave trade, 1822-1850
Coffee, the empire, and abolition, 1851-1888
Republican Brazil and the onset of modernization, 1889-1929
Getúlio Vargas, the Estado Novo, and World War II, 1930-1945
Democratic governance and developmentalism, 1946-1964
The generals in power and the fight for democracy, 1964-1985
Redemocratization and the new global economy, 1985-present.
