The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Brazilian History and Culture brings together specialists from around Latin America, Europe, and the United States in 115 long-form essays ranging from the nation's prehistory until the beginning of the 21st century. The collection features original research on the history and legacies of slavery, political history, international relations, economic history, social history, cultural history and more, with special attention paid to the arts and sciences. The encyclopedia is divided into four large chronological sections: the precolonial and long colonial periods, the short imperial period, and the republican period that continues to the present day. It also seeks to reinvent the historiographical tradition by securing the participation of historians from across generations whose contributions compare themes and models of interpretation that correspond to specific phases of historical research. Written in clear explanatory prose and incorporating the latest research, the encyclopedia's articles offer a marvelous narrative that will be of use to scholars, students, and the general reader.

Guillermo Palacios is a retired professor of history at El Colegio de México, where he was director of the Centro de Estudos Históricos and Coordinator of the Chairs of Brazilian Studies. He earned his PhD in history from Princeton University. He has been a professor-researcher at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Rio de Janeiro) and the Centro de Pós-Graduação em Agricultura e Sociedade (CPDA) of the Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) of Mexico City, and El Colegio de Michoacán. He is a member of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias and the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI). He has been a Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame and Visiting Professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Between 2013 and 2017 he served as Cultural Attaché at the Embajada de México in Brazil. He is Senior Editor of the Brazil section of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.