TY - BOOK AU - Sachs,Ignacy AU - Wilheim,Jorg AU - Pinheiro,Paulo Sérgio de M.S. TI - Brazil: a century of change T2 - Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection SN - 9780807894118 (electronic bk.) PY - 2009/// CY - Chapel Hill PB - University of North Carolina Press KW - Twenty-first century KW - Forecasts KW - Brazil KW - Civilization KW - 20th century KW - Forecasting N1 - 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 UR - http://www.netlibrary.com.libraryumpsa.idm.oclc.org/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=282896 ER -