Brazil
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Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its history is a mystery to many. Gabriel Paquette tells the story of its early years as an independent state. |
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Brazil may be one of the 21st century’s emerging superpowers, but its history is a mystery to many. Gabriel Paquette tells the story of its early years as an independent state. Published in History Today, Volume: 61 Issue: 6, 2011
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In the event Spain and Portugal divided almost all of South America between, them but in the sixteenth century the French also had commercial and colonial ambitions in Brazil. Robert Knecht tells the stories of two French expeditions that ended in disaster. |
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Richard Cavendish explains how a fleet led by Pedro Alvarez Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 21st, 1500. |
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What led middle-class students to join the urban guerrilla movement against the military regime in Brazil in the 1960s and 1970s? Alzira Alves de Abreu reports on the evidence from interviews with those who survived. Published in History Today, Volume: 47 Issue: 12
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John Geipel on how the enforced diaspora of the slave trade shaped South America’s largest nation. |
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John Geipel chronicles the tenacity of the tongue in Brazil's Indian heritage |
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