Contents

Preface

Anthony Peireira

Introduction

Why Brazil? An autobiographical fragment

I

1. Brazil and Latin America

II

2. Britain and Brazil (1808–1914)

3. The Paraguayan War (1864–70)

4. The decline and fall of slavery in Brazil (1850–88)

III

5. The long road to democracy in Brazil

6. Populism in Brazil

7. The failure of the Left in Brazil