Brazil

by Sachs, Ignacy; Wilheim, Jorge; Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio De M. S.; Anderson, Robert N.; Davila, Jerry

• ISBN13: 9780807859278
• ISBN10: 0807859273
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-15
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

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

Author Biography

Ignacy Sachs is professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. Jorge Wilheim is a Brazilian architect, planner, and former government official. Paulo Srgio Pinheiro is professor of political science at the University of So Paulo. Translator Robert N. Anderson is associate professor of Portuguese at Winston-Salem State University. Jerry Dvila is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Table of Contents

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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