Brazil

A Century of Change

By: Robert N. Anderson (Translator)

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Paperback | 15 April 2009

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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 development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.

All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies of social and economic inequality remain to be addressed in the new century. A foreword by Jerry Davila highlights the volume's contributions for a new, English-reading audience.

The contributors are:
Cristovam Buarque
Aspasia Camargo
Gilberto Dupas
Celso Furtado
Afranio Garcia
Celso Lafer, Jose Seixas Lourenco
Renato Ortiz
Moacir Palmeira
Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro
Ignacy Sachs
Paulo Singer
Herve Thery
Jorge Wilheim

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[A] lucid compilation of essays . . . immerse[s] readers in the nation's history, culture, population changes, and political, social, and concentrated wealth changes. . . . It is notable that Brazilian academics and policy makers who have been principle figures in Brazilian administrative life wrote 11 of the 12 essays. Their applied insights show in these candid and articulate summaries, which ultimately advocate for alterations of the national reality for the present century. . . . Highly recommended.--Choice

Extremely valuable to scholarship.--The Latin American Review of Books

Presents the collective wisdom of a group of prominent intellectuals and policy makers as they reflect on the path Brazil traversed in the twentieth century.--Latin American Research Review

The volume will serve especially well in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars . . . . Highly recommended.--EIAL

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

Foreword	p. vii
Translator's Note	p. xxi
Preface	p. xxv
A Cartographic and Statistical Portrait of Twentieth-Century Brazil	p. 1
Traces of the Big House and the Slave Quarters: Social Transformation in Rural Brazil during the Twentieth Century	p. 20
Economic Evolution and the International Connection	p. 55
Brazil and the World	p. 101
Culture and Society	p. 120
From the Patrimonial State to the Managerial State	p. 141
Political Transition and the (Un)rule of Law in the Republic	p. 174
Federalism and National Identity	p. 216
Amazonia: Past Progress and Future Prospects	p. 253
The Northeast: Five Hundred Years of Discoveries	p. 271
When the Future Arrives	p. 291
The Challenges of the Globalized Economy	p. 300
Metropolises and the Far West in the Twenty-first Century	p. 320
Quo Vadis, Brazil?	p. 332
Contributors	p. 345
Index	p. 349
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