Preface: Writing about Brazil and the World, Selected Chronology of Brazil and the World, Introduction, 1: Globalizing Brazil: The Colonial Experiment, 2: Brazilian Independence and the 19th Century, 3: Brazil and the Black Atlantic, 4: Science, Technology, and Defining Borders on the Road to Republicanism, 5: Global Connections from the Turn of the Century to the Modernist Revolution, 6: Getulio Vargas, World War II, and the Post-War Era, 7: The Post-War Era: Civil Society, Brasilia, and the Bossa Nova Generation, 8: The Brazilian Military Dictatorship, the Cold War, and Global Brazil, 1964-1989, 9: ‘Return to Democracy’ and the New Brazil in the World, 10: Conclusion & Epilogue: Globalizing Brazilian People and Culture in the Twenty-First Century, Selected Bibliography, Selected Glossary
Biography
Darién John Davis is professor of history and Africana Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, USA. He teaches courses on Latin American cultural production, Modern Brazil, and on immigration and diaspora studies. He is the author of five books on Brazil, Afro-Brazilians, and the author Stefan Zweig. He is the editor of three volumes and has published articles in several important journals.
