Brazil

The Once and Future Country

By: Marshall C. Eakin

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Paperback | 13 January 1999

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320 Pages

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21.59 x 13.97 x 1.83

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As the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English, "Brazil: The Once and Future Country" shows Brazil to be a land of the marvelous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic. Marshall Eakin describes a country defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial expansion, to the present day. He takes the reader from the hovels of Sao Paolo to the pleasure palaces of Rio de Janeiro and all places in between to show the rich cultural mix that is Brazil. "Brazil: The Once and Future Country" is a fascinating read that anyone interested in Brazil will want. It is also the perfect book for the traveler, armchair or otherwise, interested in this endlessly fascinating country.

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..".a riveting introduction to the basic events and trends in Brazilian history, politics, economy, society and culture." --"Booklist"
"Eakin draws on 20 years of experience visiting and writing about Brazil to produce an eloquent and informative overview, the best short survey of Brazil since the anthropologist Charles Wagley's 1963 classic, An Introduction to Brazil." --"Foreign Affairs"

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