Emergent Brazil : Key Perspectives on a New Global Power /

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This collection of sixteen essays examines the impact of Brazilian trends, institutions, culture, and religion on the world through accelerating processes of globalization.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Needell, Jeffrey D. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Globalization.
Economic history.
Diplomatic relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Globalization.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Mondialisation > Bresil.
Globalization > Brazil.
Brazil.
Bresil > Conditions economiques.
Bresil > Relations exterieures > 20e siecle.
Bresil > Histoire.
Brazil > Economic conditions.
Brazil > Foreign relations > 20th century.
Brazil > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: An attempt to grasp the moment / Jeffrey D. Needell
  • Part I: Brazil, today and yesterday
  • The country of the present, or, leaving the future in the past / Marshall Eakin
  • Brazilian spring or Brazilian autumn? First impressions of the June days of 2013 / Fernando Lattman-Weltman
  • Part II: Brazil's political scene
  • Understanding the increasing popularity of Brazilian presidents / Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco Jr
  • Too soon to give up, too late to really matter: impasses, self-deception, and Brazil's media-democratization agenda / Fernando Lattman-Weltman
  • Part III: Brazil's urban scene
  • Crime victimization in Brazil, 2009: risks by race, class, and place / Charles H. Wood and Ludmila Ribeiro
  • Pacification urbanism: a view from Rio's old industrial suburbs / Mariana Cavalcanti
  • Popular culture in emergent Brazil / Bryan McCann
  • Part IV: Brazilian religions and the world
  • Neo-Pentecostals on the pitch: Brazilian football players as missionaries abroad / Carmen Rial
  • The global spread of Brazilian religions / Cristina Rocha and Manuel A. Vásquez
  • Part V: Brazilian forest and field to the world
  • Biofuels: energy for the world / Roberto Rodrigues
  • Agribusiness and sustainability of the orange juice and sugar and ethanol industries of Sao Paulo and Florida / James A. Sterns, Thomas H. Spreen, and Paula M. Mercadante
  • Environmental governance and technological innovations for sustainable development in the Amazon / Judson F. Valentim
  • Emergent socio-environmental development in Amazonia / Marianne Schmink
  • Part VI: Brazil's new diplomatic role in the world
  • Brazil: an emerging nuclear power / Carlo Patti
  • The strange case of the missing relationship: Brazil and the United States / Peter Hakim.

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