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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Portuguese Series: Latin America in translation/en traducciâon/em traduðcäao. Brasiliana collection.Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.Description: xxvi, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780807831304 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807831301 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780807859278 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0807859273 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 982.06
LOC classification:
  • 103 F 2538.3 B827 2009
Online resources:
Contents:
A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervâe Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrãanio 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 Sâergio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspâasia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / Josâe Seixas Lourenðco -- 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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Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Barcode
Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Recursos Regionales Recursos Regionales (2do. Piso) 103 F 2538.3 B827 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000102248

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Translated from the Portuguese.

A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervâe Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrãanio 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 Sâergio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspâasia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / Josâe Seixas Lourenðco -- 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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