The Brazilians : : Their Character and Aspirations / / José Honório Rodrigues.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Rodrigues, José Honório,
• TeilnehmendeR: Burns, E. Bradford.; Dimmick, Ralph Edward.
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1967
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Texas Pan American Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)

Brazil has long been a country in search of its own meaning and mission. Early in their history Brazilians began to puzzle over their surroundings and their relation to them. The eighteenth century produced an entire school of nativistic writers who, with the advent of independence, became fiery nationalists, still pursuing introspective studies of their homeland. Throughout the nineteenth century, the intellectuals of Brazil determined to define their nation, its character, and its aspirations. In this now well-established tradition, José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going. This study, originally published in Portuguese as Aspirações nacionais, was especially timely at a period when strong feelings of nationalism led Brazilians to seek to define their own image, and when the revolution of rising expectations disposed them to determine what goals they were seeking and how far they were on the road to achieving them. In order to understand and explain his nation, Rodrigues poses two questions: what are the national characteristics, and what are the national aspirations? Both questions are complex, but the reader will find well-reasoned answers, with a wealth of information on growth and development and abundant statistics to substantiate these answers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction: Political Psychology and the Brazilians -- Part I. National Characteristics -- Part II: National Aspirations -- Part III: The Permanent and the Transitory: A Summing Up -- Bibliography -- Index