Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins, Conquest, and Colonial Rule
  • Origin of Fire / Cayapo Legend
  • Noble Savages / John Hemming
  • Description of the Tupinamba / Anonymous
  • First Wave / Warren Dean
  • Letter to Governor Tome de Sousa / Manoel da Nobrega
  • From the River of Jenero / Francisco Suares
  • Sins of Maranhao / Antonio Vieira
  • Minas Uprising of 1720 / Anonymous
  • Smuggling in the Diamond District / George Gardner
  • Decree Elevating Brazil to a Kingdom / Joao VI
  • Imperial and Republican Brazil
  • Declaration of Brazilian Independence, 1822 / Pedro I
  • Baron of Parnaiba / George Gardner
  • Uprising in Maranhao, 1839-1840 / Domingos Jose Goncalves de Magalhaes
  • Paraiba Plantation, 1850-1860 / Stanley J. Stein
  • Paraguayan War Victory Parade / Peter M. Beattie
  • Vanishing Way of Life / Gilberto Freyre
  • Mirror of Progress / Dain Borges
  • Drought and the Image of the Northeast / Gerald M. Greenfield
  • Dom Pedro the Magnanimous / Mary Wilhelmine Williams
  • Solemn Inaugural Session of December 24, 1900 / Congress of Engineering and Industry
  • Intellectuals at Play / Olavo Bilac Collection
  • City of Mist / Manoel Sousa Pinto
  • Civilist Campaign / J. R. Lobao
  • Gaucho Leaders, 1923: Photograph
  • Factory Rules, 1924 / Abramo Eberle Metalworks Management
  • Slavery and Its Aftermath
  • War against Palmares / Anonymous
  • Slave Life at Morro Velho Mine / Richard Francis Burton
  • Scenes from the Slave Trade: Logbook Entries / Joao Dunshee de Abrantes
  • Cruelty to Slaves / Thomas Ewbank
  • Slavery and Society / Joaquim Nabuco
  • Abolition Decree, 1888 / Princess Isabel and Rodrigo Augusto da Silva
  • Laws Regulating Beggars in Minas Gerais, 1900 / Legislature of Minas Gerais
  • Vargas Era
  • Social Question / Platform of the Liberal Alliance, 1930
  • Manifesto, May 1930 / Luis Carlos Prestes
  • Heroes of the Revolution: Composite Postcard Photograph
  • "Gold for Sao Paulo" Building, 1932 / Cristina Mehrtens
  • Where They Talk about Rosa Luxemburg / Patricia Galvao
  • Two Versions of Factory Life / Photographers Unknown
  • Seized Correspondence from Communists, 1935-1945 / Dossier 20, Police Archives
  • Paulista Synagogue / Gustavo Barroso
  • Why the Estado Novo? / Oliveira Vianna
  • New Year's Address, 1938 / Getulio Vargas
  • Rural Life / Photographers Unknown
  • New Survey of Brazilian Life / Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
  • General George C. Marshall's Mission to Brazil / Katherine Tupper Marshall
  • Comments on the Estado Novo / Bailey W. Diffie
  • Educational Reform after Twenty Years / Anisio S. Teixeira
  • Ordinary People: Five Lives Affected by Vargas-Era Reforms / Apolonio de Carvalho, Geraldo Valdelirios Novais and Frederico Heller / [et al.]
  • Vargas's Suicide Letter, 1954 / Getulio Vargas
  • Seeking Democracy and Equity
  • Rehearsal for the Coup / Araken Tavora
  • Military Regime / Antonio Pedro Tota
  • Excerpts from the 1967 Brazilian Constitution
  • Tropicalism and Brazilian Popular Music under Military Rule / Christopher Dunn
  • Literature under the Dictatorship / Elizabeth Ginway
  • Pele Speaks / Edson Arantes Nascimento da Silva
  • Maximum Norm of the Exercise of Liberty / Grupo da Educacao Moral e Civica
  • Families of Fishermen Confront the Sharks / Paulo Lima
  • Reality of the Brazilian Countryside / Landless Movement (MST)
  • "Greatest Administrative Scandal" / Seth Garfield
  • Life on an Occupied Ship / Marcal Joao Scarante
  • Letter from Brazil / Juliano Spyer
  • Inaugural Address / Fernando Henrique Cardoso
  • Fernando Henrique Cardoso: Theory and Practice / Ted G. Goertzel
  • Is Brazil Hopelessly Corrupt? / Roberto DaMatta
  • Women's Lives
  • Aunt Zeze's Tears / Emilia Moncorva Bandeira de Mello
  • Tarsila and the 1920s / Carol Damian and Cristina Mehrtens
  • Integral Woman / Provincia de Guanabara
  • Children Always Had Milk / Maria Puerta Ferreira
  • Women of the Forest / Yolanda F. Murphy and Robert F. Murphy
  • My Life / Maria das Dores Gomes Batista
  • Healer's Story / Maria Geralda Ferreira
  • Sonia, a Middle-Class Woman / Alison Raphael
  • Family Life in Recife / Fanny Mitchell
  • Xuxa and the Televisual Imaginary / Amelia Simpson
  • Dreams of Uneducated Women / Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy
  • Race and Ethnic Relations
  • Letter from Brazil, 1918 / Jose Clarana
  • Growing Up Black in Minas Gerais / Carolina Maria de Jesus
  • Exotic Peoples / Indian Protection Agency
  • Brazil: Study in Black, Brown, and Beige / Leslie B. Rout, Jr.
  • Immigrant Ethnicity in Brazil / Jeffrey Lesser
  • Myth of Racial Democracy / Abdias do Nascimento
  • National Day against Racism / Revista MNU
  • Church Tries to Combat Prejudice / Abdias do Nascimento
  • Bernardete Toneto
  • What Color Are You? / Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics
  • Mixed Blood / Jefferson M. Fish
  • Realities
  • Animal Game / Clayton S. Cooper
  • How Brazil Works / Robert M. Levine
  • Iansa Is Not Saint Barbara / Ile Axe Opo Afonja
  • Upward Mobility Is Possible / Alcides Nazario Guerreiro Britto
  • Crab and Yoghurt / Tobias Hecht
  • Voices from the Pavement / Claudia Milito and Helio R. S. Silva
  • Pixote's Fate / Robert M. Levine
  • Letter to President Cardoso / Caius Brandao
  • History of the Huni Kui People / Sia Kaxinawa
  • Urban Indians / Juliano Spyer
  • Mayor Orders Billboard Shacks Destroyed / Juliana Raposo
  • Cultural Imperialism at Its Most Fashionable / Roger M. Allen
  • Gay and Lesbian Movement in Brazil / James N. Green
  • Liberation Theology's Rise and Fall / Robin Nagle
  • Saudades
  • Bananas Is My Business / Helena Solberg
  • Invention of Tradition on Brazilian Radio / Bryan McCann
  • Bahia Music Story / Bill Hinchberger
  • O Axe de Zumbi / Paulo Lima and Bernadete Toneto
  • At Carnival / Pedro Ribeiro
  • Two Poets Sing the New World / Jessica Callaway
  • Two Essays on Sports / Janet Lever and Jose Carlos Sebe Bom Meihy.