Brazil : a century of change / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Translated from the Portuguese.
Contents:
The Quo Vadis, Brazil? / Ignacy Sachs. 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.
Series:
Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection
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