Kirjahaku

When at the beginning of the nineteenth century Britain launched her crusade against the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil was one of the greatest importers of African slaves in the New World. Negro slavery had been the cornerstone of the Brazilian economy and of Brazilian society for over 200 years and the slave population of Brazil required regular replenishment through the trade. In this detailed study Dr Bethell explains how during the period of Brazilian independence from Portugal, Britain forced the Brazilian slave trade to be declared illegal, why it proved impossible to suppress it for twenty years afterwards and how it was finally abolished. He covers a major aspect of the history of the international abolition of the slave trade and slavery and makes an important contribution to the study of Anglo-Brazilian relations which were dominated - and damaged - by the slave trade question for more than half a century.

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

The Cambridge History of Latin America is a large scale, collaborative, multi-volume history of Latin America during the five centuries from the first contacts between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries to the present. Latin America: Economy and Society since 1930 brings together chapters from Parts 1 and 2 of Volume VI of The Cambridge History to provide a complete survey of the Latin American economies since 1930. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history and of contemporary Latin America. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.

Published to mark his 80th birthday, this volume consists ofseven essays by Leslie Bethell on major themes in modern Brazilian history andpolitics: Brazil and Latin America; 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 they draw on book chapters and journal articles published (mainly inPortuguese) and public lectures delivered in the ten years since his retirementas founding Director of the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies in2007. In an autobiographical Introduction (Why Brazil?) ProfessorBethell describes how, from the most unlikely of backgrounds, he became ahistorian of Brazil and how he came to devote much of his long academic careerto the promotion and development of Brazilian studies in UK (and, to a lesserextent, US) universities. Leslie Bethell is one of the few great Brazilianists,as foreign scholars of Brazil are called, of his and subsequent generations.Brazilianists engage in scholarship that has breadth and depth; illuminateBrazil as an object of study, asking the most important questions that can beasked about the country; and give voice to Brazilian experiences andperspectives. Leslie Bethell has done these things during his long career, andhe continues to do so, as this collection of his recent essays on Brazilianhistory and politics demonstrates. AnthonyPereira, Director, Brazil Institute, King's CollegeLondon