Brazil [electronic resource] : a century of change / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xxvi, 364 p. : ill., mapsUniform titles:
  • Brasil. English.
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 982.06 22
  • 981.06 22
LOC classification:
  • F2538.3 .B6313 2009eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
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.
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Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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