jmm1184 wrote:
> John, have you done much research on Brazil's timeline? Do you
> think the election of Jari Bolsonaro indicates a crisis era?
> Brazil has always been a puzzle for me to decipher generationally,
> in part due to its large size and also a very limited knowledge of
> its tribal wars.
> However, the last major conflict that Brazil experienced appears
> to have been the Revolution of 1930, which had been preceded by
> roughly 20 years of violence, unrest, and discontent with the
> status quo. This period of violence and revolution climaxed with
> the short civil war of 1932. Brazil has not had any major
> conflicts since then: it was involved in WWII but not to the
> extent of the main Axis powers - WWII was a non-crisis war for
> Brazil, and the military dictatorship of 1964-1985 did not see
> much violence, either in state repression or in uprisings against
> it (at least compared to other countries such as Argentina and
> Chile).
> Thus, if Brazil's last crisis war was the "revolutionary period"
> of 1912-1932, then that would place Brazil deep into a crisis
> era. What's interesting about this is that there are a number of
> other nations that are deep in crisis eras in South
> America. Paraguay and Bolivia share a crisis war in the War of the
> Chaco (1932-1935), so they are both deep in crisis
> eras. Meanwhile, Colombia and Venezuela are both in crisis eras,
> and I would expect Venezuela to degenerate into civil war or spark
> a intra-state war soon due to the deteriorating situation there.
> However, I could be wrong - thoughts?
I haven't studied Brazil's history much.
Matt Ignal gave the following:
Brazil -- Brazilian War of Independence -- 1821-1825
Brazil -- Establishment of Old Republic -- 1889-1898
Brazil -- Military Takeover -- 1964-1974
Nathan G gave the following:
http://gdxforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... 331#p29331
Brazil:
Brazilian Independence, 1821-1825
Collapse of the Brazilian Empire, 1889-1898
Brazilian Junta, 1964-1974
--
On a completely separate subject, did you ever get Japan's timeline
straightened for the period between the Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
and the Meiji Restoration (1868)?
I recently came across a somewhat amazing
book written by Bertrand Russell called "The Problem of China,"
written in 1922.
http://www.freeclassicebooks.com/Bertra ... 0China.pdf
I've always been interested in Bertrand Russell as a mathematician.
He was the person who "discovered" the Russell Paradox (is the set of
all sets that are not members of themselves a member of itself?) that
was the basis of Mathematical Logic in the 20th century, which is what
I studied when I was at MIT.
What's interesting about this book is that it goes into all
the details of China and Japan, as seen in 1922. This includes
the history of Japan prior to the Meiji Restoration, though
it doesn't provide any help with the timeline.
Russell provides a list of "white men's sins" -- they're racist,
they're selfish, they're wicked, and they're greedy -- according to
the Japanese, which he said he agrees with. (At that time, Russell
was pro-Communist, though he later changed his views.)
He goes on to say that even though the Japanese viewed "white men" as
having these flaws, they reacted to them not by rejecting these flaws
but by imitating them "as closely as possible," being especially
vicious toward the Chinese. These views are quite prescient in
understanding how this led to World War II.
From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, these kinds of
analyses are extremely valuable, since they show what people where
thinking and doing around the time that actual events occurred,
without being polluted by later ideologies and biases.
Anyway, it's a great book, well worth a read.