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Brazil the troubled rise of a global power
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Title
Brazil [electronic resource] : the troubled rise of a global power / Michael Reid.
ISBN
0300165838
9780300165838
0300165609
1306715261
9780300165609
9781306715263
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (xii, 334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Text in English.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Examines the South American country that is destined to be one of the world's premier economic powers by the year 2030, and considers some of the abundant problems the nation faces.
Variant and related titles
EBSCOhost eBook collection, Yale University Press.
Other formats
Print version: Reid, Michael. Brazil. New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2014]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 04, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (unnumbered pages 312-page 317) and index.
Contents
Introduction : a new power
Brazil's troubled rise
The Brazilian way of life
Part I: History from geography
The forging of a people
From monarchy to coffee republic
Getulio Vargas and 'national developmentalism'
The long dictatorship
Part II: The making of democratic Brazil
From disorder to progress under Cardoso
Lulismo and the Brazilian dream
The long road to a middle-class society
Oil, farming and the Amazon
Brazil's guided capitalism
Part III: Prospects
Global ambitions and frustrations
An unreformed Leviathan
Brazil's century?
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Genre/Form
History.
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