New world in the Tropics
Subtitle: the culture of modern Brazil.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1959
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Brazil -- Civilization
Description: Brazil--a huge nation with a rapidly increasing population, enormous natural resources, and a lively cultural and political life-- is rapidly approaching the status of a great power. This book studies Brazil's historic and ethnic backgrounds, its cultural unity adn regional diversity, its ethnic and social conditions, its experiment as a European civilization in the tropics, its evolution through slavery and monarchy, its modern literature, and its world-famous architecture.
Notes: "Expanded and completely rewritten version of [the author's] Brazil: an interpretation."