HISTORY
471
HISTORY OF BRAZIL
Final Examination Study Guide
http://www.history.umd.edu/Faculty/DWilliams/Spring11/HIST471/final.html
The final examination will begin promptly at 10:30am on Monday, May 16, 2011, in FSK 1117 (where we normally meet). The exam will last two hours.
You will be allowed to bring to the examination one 8.5" x 11"study sheet. The study sheet may contain whatever information that can be fit on both sides of the paper. You will be required to turn in the study sheet with the examination.
An optional review session has been scheduled for Wednesday, May 11 (Study Day), 2:00-3:30pm in Francis Scott Key 2120 (H. Samuel Merrill Room). Bring your questions, comments, and trial answers.
Additional study opportunities will be available on the course ELMS site.
The exam will consist of two sections.
You will be given SEVEN terms drawn from major figures, events, trends, places, and/or concepts that we have covered since Spring Break.
You will be asked to define FIVE of the seven terms, placing each chosen term in its proper historical context.
Part II: Essays (70% of exam grade):
Three of the following four questions will appear verbatim on the exam. You will be asked to answer TWO of the three options.
1) The leaders of regime change in 1930 and of 1964 embraced the name and cause of "Revolution." The paradox of each case was how the new regimes proved hostile to most forms of "revolution" advocated by the orthodox Communist left, the revolutionary-vanguard left, and the voices of counterculture. Historically situate the meanings, practices, and limits of state-led "revolution" under the first Vargas regime and the military dictatorship inaugurated in 1964.
2) Critically assess the multiple, complex legacies of Getúlio Vargas and varguismo in the political culture of modern Brazilian history.
3) James N. Green analyzes the making and unmaking of military rule in Brazil as a transnational process. Identify the key elements of Green's study, offering a critical assessment of his transnational approach to the history of the national security state in Brazil.
4) What has democracy meant in the long history of the Brazilian Republic? Your answer should engage Francisco Weffort's 1984 essay "Why Democracy?" and its arguments about the nature of democracy in Brazil.
The final exam represents 20% of your final grade.