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Brazil a century of change

Title
Brazil [electronic resource] : 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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Additional Authors
  • Sachs, Ignacy.
  • Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-
  • Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)
Description
1 online resource (xxvi, 364 p.) : ill., maps.
Series Statement
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection
Uniform Title
  • Brasil. English (Online)
  • 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.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2008036712
OCLC
ssj0000114441
Title
Brazil [electronic resource] : 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.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Sachs, Ignacy.
Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-
Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)
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