#  HIST 1032: A History of Brazil, from Independence to the Present 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2017 

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 Link: [Course Website](https://courses.my.harvard.edu/psp/courses/EMPLOYEE/EMPL/h/?tab=HU_CLASS_SEARCH…) 

 

 

 

**Professor Sidney Chalhoub.** This course will analyze major themes in the social and political history of Brazil from Independence (1822) to the present. Themes to be addressed are the following: Independence, colonial legacies and national identity; state formation and the question of citizenship rights; the African slave trade; land and labor policies in a slave society; slave emancipation and the crisis of the monarchy; the establishment of the republican regime; gender and the crisis of patriarchy; urban renewal and popular protest; social movements in rural areas; the labor movement; populism; the myth of racial democracy and its crisis; dictatorship and democracy.

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Fall 2017 - Spring 2018 ](/course-categories/2017-2018)