Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a new power
  • Brazil's troubled rise
  • The Brazilian way of life
  • Part I: History from geography
  • The forging of a people
  • From monarchy to coffee republic
  • Getulio Vargas and 'national developmentalism'
  • The long dictatorship
  • Part II: The making of democratic Brazil
  • From disorder to progress under Cardoso
  • Lulismo and the Brazilian dream
  • The long road to a middle-class society
  • Oil, farming and the Amazon
  • Brazil's guided capitalism
  • Part III: Prospects
  • Global ambitions and frustrations
  • An unreformed Leviathan
  • Brazil's century?