Brazil: A Century of Change (Latin America in Translation En Traduccion Em Traducao - the Brasillana Collection)

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 Davila highlights the volume's contributions for a new, English-reading audience. The contributors are: Cristovam Buarque Aspasia Camargo Gilberto Dupas Celso Furtado Afranio Garcia Celso Lafer, Jose Seixas Lourenco Renato Ortiz Moacir Palmeira Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira Paulo Sergio Pinheiro Ignacy Sachs Paulo Singer Herve Thery Jorge Wilheim Contents......Page 6 Foreword......Page 8 Translator’s Note......Page 22 Preface......Page 26 1. A Cartographic and Statistical Portrait of Twentieth-Century Brazil......Page 30 2. Traces of the Big House and the Slave Quarters: Social Transformation in Rural Brazil during the Twentieth Century......Page 49 3. Economic Evolution and the International Connection......Page 84 4. Brazil and the World......Page 130 5. Culture and Society......Page 149 6. From the Patrimonial State to the Managerial State......Page 170 7. Political Transition and the (Un)rule of Law in the Republic......Page 203 8. Federalism and National Identity......Page 245 9. Amazonia: Past Progress and Future Prospects......Page 282 10. The Northeast: Five Hundred Years of Discoveries......Page 300 11. When the Future Arrives......Page 320 12. The Challenges of the Globalized Economy......Page 329 13. Metropolises and the Far West in the Twenty-first Century......Page 349 14. Quo Vadis, Brazil?......Page 361 Contributors......Page 374 B......Page 378 C......Page 379 E......Page 381 F......Page 382 I......Page 383 L......Page 384 M......Page 385 N......Page 386 P......Page 387 R......Page 389 S......Page 390 T......Page 391 W......Page 392 Z......Page 393 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 Davila highlights the volume's contributions for a new, English-reading audience. The contributors are Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Cristovam Buarque, Aspasia Camargo, Gilberto Dupas, Celso Furtado, Afranio Garcia, Celso Lafer, Jose Seixas Lourenco, Renato Ortiz, Moacir Palmeira, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, Ignacy Sachs, Paulo Singer, Herve Thery, and Jorge Wilheim. Annotation 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 Davila highlights the volume's contributions for a new, English-reading audience. The contributors are: Cristovam Buarque Aspasia Camargo Gilberto Dupas Celso Furtado Afranio Garcia Celso Lafer, Jose Seixas Lourenco Renato Ortiz Moacir Palmeira Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira Paulo Sergio Pinheiro Ignacy Sachs Paulo Singer Herve Thery Jorge Wilheim "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.