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

Other author Sachs, Ignacy.
Other author Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-
Other author Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,
Descriptionxxvi, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
Brazil--Civilization. --20th century.
Brazil--Forecasting.

Uniform titleBrasil. English.
SeriesLatin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio 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 Sérgio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço -- 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.
General noteTranslated from the Portuguese.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2008036712
ISBN9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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