Born of an 1889 barracks coup, the United States of Brazil grew into the giant of South America, swallowing the Acre rubber frontier from Bolivia and stretching from the Guiana highlands to the gaucho pampas.
Endures: the Federative Republic of Brazil, the fifth-largest country on Earth, capital at purpose-built Brasilia since 1960.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Republic of Brazil — the shape you scrub through changes in 1889 · 1903 · 1966.
A standard history of Brazil covering the 1889 republic, the Acre annexation, and after.
A standard single-volume University of California Press survey of modern Latin America, giving the same broad regional context for the citing states and colonies.
Landmark Brazilian novel of the sertão backlands and its jagunço gunmen, set around the turn of the 20th century within the Republic's early decades.
Epic novel of the 1890s Canudos War in the Brazilian backlands, fought in the earliest years of the Republic against a millenarian settlement.