Bertrand Brasil is revamping the graphic design of the General History of Brazilian Civilization collection, a reference work for high school and college students. Having been on the Brazilian publishing market for 40 years, it is a publication without parallel in our intellectual production: it chronologically covers the entire history of Brazil up to 1964 with a high level of treatment, yet not indecipherable. Totaling 11 volumes, the work—edited by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda (colonial and monarchical periods) and Boris Fausto (republican period)—analyzes different areas of the country's historical formation, from the material organization of society to forms of culture and thought. This seventh volume covers the transition period between the Empire and the Republic. The first two volumes are dedicated to the colonial era: From Discovery to Territorial Expansion and Administration, Economy, Society. Experts study the process of Brazil's constitution and consolidation as a Portuguese colony, covering everything from economic and sociopolitical aspects to colonial medicine, baroque music, and scientific expeditions. The monarchical period is covered in five books: The Process of Emancipation, Dispersion and Unity, Reactions and Transactions, Decline and Fall of the Empire, and this one, From Empire to Republic. It begins with an analysis of the conditions of Brazil's emancipation and concludes with the crisis of the monarchical regime and the transition to the Republic, in a classic volume written entirely by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. The four volumes on the republican period, in turn, are Power Structure and Economy (1889-1930), Society and Institutions (1889-1930), Society and Politics (1930-1964), and Economy and Culture (1930-1964). They are divided into two periods: one before and one after 1930, a year of global crisis and revolution in Brazil. At the end of the books that conclude each period, there is a bibliography and a summary chronology, indicating the relevant events in Brazil and the world, which serve as a landmark for the period studied.
