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Title:
Brazil : the troubled rise of a global power / Michael Reid.
Author:
Reid, Michael, author.
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

©2014
Call Number:
F2521 .R43 2015
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780300216974
Physical Description:
xii, 341 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
General Note:
Originally published: 2014.
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 -- Getúlio 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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