Brazil : a century of change / / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Davila

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910813611603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-4696-0591-0; 0-8078-9411-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (393 p.)
• Collana: Latin America in translation/en traduccion/em traducao. Brasiliana collection
• Classificazione: 15.85
• Altri autori (Persone): SachsIgnacy; WilheimJorge <1928->; PinheiroPaulo Sergio de M. S (Paulo Sergio de Moraes Sarmento)
• Disciplina: 982.06; 981.06
• Soggetti: Twenty-first century; Brazil Civilization 20th century; Brazil Forecasting
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translated from the Portuguese.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Herve Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afranio 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 Sergio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspasia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / Jose Seixas Lourenco -- 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.