xii, 334 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [312]-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?
