Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sachs, Ignacy.
• Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-
• Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)

Description

xxvi, 364 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection

Uniform Title

• Brasil. English.
• Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.

Subject

• Twenty-first century > Forecasts
• Brazil > Civilization > 20th century
• Brazil > Forecasting

Note

• Translated from the Portuguese.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JHE 09-563

ISBN

• 9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008036712

OCLC

244293300

Title

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

Imprint

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.

Series

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection

Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sachs, Ignacy.

Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-

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

Research Call Number

JHE 09-563