Brazil : : the Troubled Rise of a Global Power
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Introduction : a new power -- Brazil's troubled rise -- The Brazilian way of life -- Part I: History from geography -- The forging of a people -- From monarchy to coffee republic -- Getulio Vargas and 'national developmentalism' -- The long dictatorship -- Part II: The making of democratic Brazil -- From disorder to progress under Cardoso -- Lulismo and the Brazilian dream -- The long road to a middle-class society -- Oil, farming and the Amazon -- Brazil's guided capitalism -- Part III: Prospects -- Global ambitions and frustrations -- An unreformed Leviathan -- Brazil's century?
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PUBLISHED
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014].
Year Published: 2014
Description: xii, 334 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780300165609
0300165609
SUBJECTS
Social change -- Brazil -- History -- 21st century.
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Brazil -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
Brazil -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.