Brazil a century of change /
Brazil a century of change / [electronic resource] :
edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 364 p.) : ill., maps
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection .
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection .
Description based on print version record Translated from the Portuguese
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Mode of access: Internet
9780807894118 (electronic bk.) 0807894117 (electronic bk.) 9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
Brazil--Civilization--20th century
Brazil--Forecasting
Description based on print version record Translated from the Portuguese
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Mode of access: Internet
9780807894118 (electronic bk.) 0807894117 (electronic bk.) 9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper) 0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
Brazil--Civilization--20th century
Brazil--Forecasting