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Author
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In this hugely praised narrative, New York Times reporter Larry Rohter takes the reader on a lively trip through Brazil's history, culture, and booming economy. Going beyond the popular stereotypes of samba, supermodels, and soccer, he shows us a stunning and varied landscape- from breathtaking tropical beaches to the lush and dangerous Amazon rainforest-and how a complex and vibrant people defy definition. He charts Brazil's amazing jump from a debtor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a...