Brazil: Essays on History and Politics

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Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume is the primary collected compendium of the work of Professor Leslie Bethell and consists of 7 essays on major themes in up to date Brazilian history and politics: Brazil and Latin The usa; Britain and Brazil (1808-1914); The Paraguayan War (1864-70); The Decline and Fall of Slavery (1850-1888); The Long Road to Democracy; Populism; The Failure of the Left. The essays are new, but draw from his classic published works: book chapters and journal articles (initially published Portuguese), and public lectures delivered within the ten years since his retirement as founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in 2007. In his fascinating autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) Professor Bethell describes how, from essentially the most not going of backgrounds, he changed into a historian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic career to the promotion and development of Brazilian studies the world over.

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