Brazil
About this book
Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status of a failed state.
In this vibrant and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this "incomplete nation" and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial discrimination, and regional rivalries. From independence to the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to the election of President Bolsonaro β the "Tropical Trump" β and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and development.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Map
- Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Glossary
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Tropical Liberalism (1840β1930)
- 2 The Failed March to Modernity (1930β1964)
- 3 Military Dictatorship (1964β1985)
- 4 Chaotic Democracy (1985β1994)
- 5 The Triumph of Social Democracy (1994β2010)
- 6 The Great Unraveling (2010β)
- Afterword
- Further Reading
- Index
- End User License Agreement
