HST 272 - History of Brazil

Course Units: 1.0

(TBD: Staff) This is a survey interpretation of Brazilian history from the days of Portuguese expansion to the present, including the contrast between the urban and rural areas, the Atlantic slave trade, slavery and the resistance to it, the plantation system and post-abolition race relations, the destruction of the rainforest, the emergence of democratic structures in modern Brazil, and the rise of Brazil as a 21st century economic powerhouse. CC: LCC, SOCS