The Cambridge History of Latin America

Professor Leslie Bethell is Emeritus Professor of Latin American History in the University of London and an Emeritus Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford. He was Director of the University of London Institute of Latin American Studies from 1987 to 1992 and the University of Oxford Centre for Brazilian Studies from 1997 to 2007. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentacao de Historia Contemporanea do Brasil at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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• Part I. Politics: 1. Politics in Brazil under Vargas 1930–45 Leslie Bethell; 2. Politics in Brazil under the Liberal Republic 1945–64 Leslie Bethell; 3. Politics in Brazil under military rule 1964–85 Leslie Bethell and Celso Castro; 4. Politics in Brazil since 1985 Leslie Bethell and Jairo Nicolau; Part II: 5. The Brazilian economy 1930–80 Marcelo de Paiva Abreu; 6. The Brazilian economy 1980–94 Marcelo de Paiva Abreu; 7. The Brazilian economy since 1994: an interim assessment Marcelo de Paiva Abreu and Rogerio L. F. Werneck; 8. Brazilian society: continuity and change 1920–2000 Nelson do Valle Silva and Leslie Bethell.