Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast Brazil
Subtitle: Juazeiro and Petrolina in Transition (Cambridge Latin American Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780521028813
Subjects: Social classes; Social issues; Social Science; Sociology; Brazil; Sociology - General; Capitalism; Elite (Social sciences); Elite (Social sciences)--Brazil--Juazeiro (Bahia); Social Science / Sociology / General
First sentence: This report from a Recife newspaper provides a glimpse of political-economic life in the early 1970s in Juazeiro and Petrolina, neighboring towns of some sixty thousand inhabitants each that are closely linked to each other, to their respective states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast, to the federal government centered in Brasilia, and, increasingly, to international capital.