Brazil
Subtitle: the troubled rise of a global power
By: Michael Reid
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780300165609
Subjects: Politics and government; Social life and customs; Social change; Economic conditions; Political science; Social history; Social conditions; Manners and customs; History; Economic history
Description: Examines the South American country that is destined to be one of the world's premier economic powers by the year 2030, and considers some of the abundant problems the nation faces.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-317) and index.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a new power. Brazil's troubled rise; title: The Brazilian way of life; title: Part I. History from geography. The forging of a people; title: From monarchy to coffee republic; title: Getúlio Vargas and 'national developmentalism'; title: The long dictatorship; title: Part II. The making of democratic Brazil. From disorder to progress under Cardoso; title: Lulismo and the Brazilian dream; title: The long road to a middle-class society; title: Oil, farming and the Amazon; title: Brazil's guided capitalism; title: Part III. Prospects. Global ambitions and frustrations; title: An unreformed Leviathan; title: Brazil's century?