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

Contributor(s): Sachs, Ignacy | Wilheim, Jorge, 1928- | Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio de M. S. (Paulo Sergio de Moraes Sarmento) | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducaoBrasiliana collectionPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009Description: xxvi, 364 p. : ill., mapsUniform titles: Brasil. English. Subject(s): Twenty-first century -- Forecasts | Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century | Brazil -- ForecastingGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 982.06 | 981.06 LOC classification: F2538.3 | .B6313 2009Other classification: 15.85 Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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