Brazil
Subtitle: The Once and Future Country
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; St. Martin's Press
Published: June 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780312162009
Subjects: Latin America - South America; History / General; History / South America; Brazil - History; History - General History; 20th century; Brazil; Civilization; History: World
First sentence: ALL NATIONS CARRY WITH THEM the scars of their past, yet Brazil bears the "burdens of history" more visibly than most.]
Description: Brazil: The Once and Future Country is the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English. In his quest to understand the largest country in Latin America, Eakin reveals Brazil to be a land of the marvelous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic.

A country that encompasses half of the land of South America and one-third of all Latin Americans, Brazil is a nation defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial expansion, to the present day.

History, religion, society, culture, politics, and economy are mixed together to make Brazil: The Once and Future Country a fascinating piece of work.