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Book

Brazil : the troubled rise of a global power

Call Number

  • 981 R357 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]

Physical Description

xii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Summary

Examines the South American country that is destined to be one of the world's premier economic powers by the year 2030, and considers some of the abundant problems the nation faces.

Contents

  • 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
  • Getúlio 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?

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