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

Uniform Title
Brasil. English
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xxvi, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Sachs, Ignacy, Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-, and Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S. (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento)

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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.
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ISBN
9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper)
0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Note
Translated from the Portuguese.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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