Brazil : a century of change / edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sâergio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dâavila. - Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009. - xxvi, 364 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Latin America in translation/en traducciâon/em traduðcäao. Brasiliana collection . - Latin America in translation/en traducciâon/em traduðcäao. Brasiliana collection. .

Translated from the Portuguese.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Twenty-first century--Forecasts.


Brazil--Civilization--20th century.
Brazil--Forecasting.
Brasil--Civilización--Historia.
Brasil--Historia.

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