Brazil a century of change /

• Other Authors: Sachs, Ignacy., Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-, Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
• Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.
• Subjects: Twenty-first century > Forecasts.; Twenty-first century.; HISTORY.; Brazil > Civilization > 20th century.; Brazil > Forecasting.; Brazilië.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's deve...

Table of Contents:

• A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery
• Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio Garcia, Moacir Palmeira
• Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer
• Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer
• Culture and society / Renato Ortiz
• From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
• Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
• Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo
• Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço
• The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque
• When the future arrives / Celso Furtado
• The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas
• Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim
• Quo Vadis, Brazil? / Ignacy Sachs.