CENTRE FOR BRAZILIAN STUDIES Working paper CBS-37-1999 The British contribution to the study of Brazil by Leslie Bethell Director Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford Published in Portuguese as ‘A contribuição británico para estudo do Brasil’ in Rubens Antonio Barbosa, Marshall C. Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida (eds.), O Brasil dos Brasilianistas. Um guia dos estudos sobre o Brasil nos Estados Unidos, 1945-2000 (São Paulo: Editora Paz e Terra, 2002) and, revised and expanded, in Marshall Eakin and Paulo Roberto de Almeida (eds) Envisioning Brazil. A guide to Brazilian studies in the United States, 1945-2003 (Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005) Chapter 13, pp.347-374