Brazil
Subtitle: a century of change
By: edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila.
Contributors: Sachs, Ignacy.; Wilheim, Jorge, 1928-; Pinheiro, Paulo Sérgio de M. S.
Series: Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780807831304; 9780807859278
Subjects: Twenty-first century -- Forecasts; Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century; Brazil -- Forecasting
Genres: Forecasts.
Work titles: Brasil. English
Description: "Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization. All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies of social and economic inequality remain to be addressed in the new century. A foreword by Jerry Dávila highlights the volumes contributions for a new, English-reading audience."--Book cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.