Brazil : a century of change / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Davila.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sachs, Ignacy.

Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-

Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)

Series:

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao. Brasiliana collection.

Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao. Brasiliana collection

Standardized Title:

Brasil. English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Twenty-first century.

Brazil--Civilization--20th century.

Brazil.

Brazil--Forecasting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Herve Thery

Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afranio Garcia, Moacir Palmeira

Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer

Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer

Culture and society / Renato Ortiz

From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira

Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sergio Pinheiro

Federalism and national identity / Aspasia Camargo

Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / Jose Seixas Lourenco

The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque

When the future arrives / Celso Furtado

The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas

Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim

Quo Vadis, Brazil? / Ignacy Sachs.

Notes:

Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-191-8

979-88-908792-5-7

1-4696-0591-0

0-8078-9411-7

OCLC:

435630825