Modern World History: Brazil

This concise article mentions the native peoples living in what is now modern Brazil before the arrival of the Portuguese and Spanish.

An in-depth article on the many indigenous peoples of the Amazon, originally published in The Encyclopedia of Religion, and now in electronic format on Gale's "World History in Context" database.

The English translation of this historic treaty that created a "line of demarcation" between Spain and Portugal on the South American continent. From ABC-CLIO'S database, "The Modern Era".

This is an article originally published in the "Encyclopedia of Western Colonialism since 1450", now published in electronic format on Gale's "World History in Context" database.

An overview of 19th century (1800s) colonial Brazil

On June 19, 1779, the Portuguese viceroy of Brazil, Marques de Lavradio, drew up this report on the state of the colony for his successor. This is an excerpt from it.

A political moderate, Pope Leo XIII welcomed the news that slavery had been abolished in Brazil by issuing this encyclical, on May 5, 1888. Brazil was one of the last countries to abolish slavery.

This article discusses "abertura", "the policy of political liberalization or 'opening' to democracy in Brazil initiated by the government of General João Batista Figueiredo in 1979."

an ebook from Library of Congress

An overview article from Gale's "World History in Context" database.

Created for the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Brazilian military coup of 1964, the George Washington University's National Security Archive uploaded important documents related to the US's involvement in Brazilian politics.

(Brown University & Universidade Estadual de Maringá)
This is an archive of documents chiefly produced by the US State Department that relate to the Brazilian dictatorship that began in 1964.

from the Digital Archive of Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars