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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sachs, Ignacy (Editor ), Wilheim, Jorge, 1928- (Editor ), Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
Colección:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.
Temas:
1900-1999
Twenty-first century > Forecasts.
Vingt et unième siècle > Prévisions.
HISTORY.
Civilization
Forecasting
Twenty-first century
15.85 history of America.
Brazil > Civilization > 20th century.
Brazil > Forecasting.
Brésil > Civilisation > 20e siècle.
Brazil
Brazilië.
Forecasts
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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