Title:
Brazil on the rise : the story of a country transformed / Larry Rohter.
Author:
Rohter, Larry, 1950-
Publication Information:
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Call Number:
F2538.3 .R64 2012
Edition:
1st Palgrave Macmillan pbk. ed.
ISBN:
9780230120730
Physical Description:
292 p. : map ; 24 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2010. Pbk. includes new postscript.
Contents:
The "country of the future" reveals itself -- A history of booms and busts -- Sin and salvation south of the equator -- The myth of a racial paradise -- The tropical lifestyle -- Creativity, culture, and "cannibalism" -- Industrial giant, agricultural superpower -- Energy to burn : petroleum, ethanol, and hydropower -- The Amazon : nationalism and paranoia in the jungle -- Becoming a "serious country" -- Politics after Lula and FHC.
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