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UNINA9910455371003321 |
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Titolo |
Brazil [[electronic resource] ] : a century of change / / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009 |
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1-4696-0591-0 |
0-8078-9411-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Collana |
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Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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SachsIgnacy |
WilheimJorge <1928-> |
PinheiroPaulo Sérgio de M. S (Paulo Sérgio de Moraes Sarmento) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Twenty-first century |
Electronic books. |
Brazil Civilization 20th century |
Brazil Forecasting |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Translated from the Portuguese. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio Garcia, Moacir Palmeira -- Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer -- Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer -- Culture and society / Renato Ortiz -- From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira -- Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço -- The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque -- When the future arrives / Celso Furtado -- The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas -- Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim -- Quo Vadis, Brazil? / Ignacy Sachs. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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UNINA9910455975003321 |
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Autore |
White Howard <1960-> |
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African poverty at the millennium [[electronic resource] ] : causes, complexities, and challenges / / Howard White and Tony Killick in collaboration with Steve Kayizzi-Mugerwa and Marie-Angelique Savane |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Washington, D.C., : World Bank, c2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-08403-0 |
9786610084036 |
0-585-41511-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (170 pages) |
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Poverty - Africa |
Electronic books. |
Africa Economic conditions |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-139). |
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