Brazil the troubled rise of a global power
After decades of military rule, the fourth most populous democracy enjoyed effective reformist leadership that tamed inflation, opened the country up to trade, and addressed poverty and other social issues, enabling Brazil to become more of an essential participant in global affairs. But as it prepa...
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New Haven, CT
Yale University Press
[2014]
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Table of 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?