| Description |
xxvi, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducão. Brasiliana collection |
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Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em tradução. Brasiliana collection.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Translated from the Portuguese. |
| 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 / Afrânio Garcia and 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. |
| Subject |
Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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Brazil -- Forecasting.
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Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
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| Added Author |
Sachs, Ignacy.
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Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-
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Pinheiro, Paulo Sergio de M. S. (Paulo Sergio de Moraes Sarmento)
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| ISBN |
0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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