History of Brazil
0
2019-2020
01010727
Área Científica do Menor
Portuguese
Face-to-face
SEMESTRIAL
6.0
Elective
1st Cycle Studies
Recommended Prerequisites
Not applicable.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical, with the active participation of students. Case by case participation of experts invited to the presentation and discussion of some issues.
Learning Outcomes
Students will gain an updated, pedagogically systematic and well articulated perspective of the history of Portuguese America and Brazil as independent nation-state, in the economic, social, cultural and political areas. The proposed training is designed to develop the capacity for reflection, and research organization. The contact and understanding of different historiographical perspectives allows students to develop critical thinking and communication skills in oral and written forms
Work Placement(s)
NoSyllabus
The integration of the Portuguese empire in Brazil.
Administration and powers in Portuguese America.
Racism and slavery in the colony.
Colonial economy and the Portuguese imperial dynamics in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: from the sugar cycle to the gold cycle.
Church, Culture and Society: missionary and social control.
Inequalities of wealth, social hierarchies and riots.
The process of independence and the constitution of the Empire.
Centralism and federalism: separatist temptations.
Political dissent, abolitionist campaign and formation of the Republic (1889-1930).
Immigration, industrialization and urbanization.
Between revolution and the dictatorship: the era of Getúlio Vargas.
The transition to democracy: the presidency of Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1964). Political crisis and military power.
Brazil at the turn of the twentieth century: a regional power in the Ibero-american space and in the framework of globalization.
Head Lecturer(s)
Ana Cristina Cardoso Santos Bartolomeu de Araújo
Assessment Methods
Assessment continues
Other: 30.0%
Frequency: 70.0%
Final Assessment
Exam: 100.0%
Bibliography
ALVES, M. H. Moreira, Estado e oposição no Brasil, 1964-1984, Petropolis, Vozes, 1984
BICALHO, Fernanda e GOUVEIA, Maria de Fátima, O Antigo Regime nos trópicos: a dinâmica imperial portuguesa nos séculos XVI-XVIII, Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 2001
CARVALHO, José Murillo de, Cidadania no Brasil: o longo caminho, Rio de Janeiro, Civilização Brasileira, 2001
FURTADO, Celso, Le Brésil aprés le miracle, Paris, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1987
MELLO, Evaldo Cabral de, Rubro Veio. O imaginário da Restauração Pernanbucana, Rio de Janeiro, Topbooks, 1997
RUSSEL-WOOD, A. J. R., Um mundo em movimento: Os portugueses em África, Ásia e América, 1415-1800, Lisboa, Difel, 1998.
SOUZA, Laura de Mello e, Desclassificados do ouro. A pobreza mineira no século XVIII, Rio de Janeiro, Graal, 1982