Emergent Brazil
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Emergent Brazil

Key Perspectives on a New Global Power

  1. 322 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Emergent Brazil

Key Perspectives on a New Global Power

About this book

For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world's largest economies for the last twenty years. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence.

Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country's media, its nuclear capabilities, changing crime rates, the spread of Pentecostalism and indigenous religions, the development of popular culture, the growth of Brazilian agribusiness, and the implementation of sustainable economic development, especially in the Amazon.

The only member of the large, newly industrialized, fast-growing BRICS economies (along with Russia, China, India, and South Africa) in the Western hemisphere, Brazil plays a unique role regionally and throughout the world. Emergent Brazil is a comprehensive and timely collection of essays that explore the country's major domestic concerns and the impact of its trends, institutions, culture, and religion across the globe.

Jeffrey D. Needell is professor of history at the University of Florida and former Latin American program associate at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of A Tropical Belle Epoque and The Party of Order.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. List of Tables
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: An Attempt to Grasp the Moment
  7. PART I. BRAZIL, TODAY AND YESTERDAY
  8. PART II. BRAZIL’S POLITICAL SCENE
  9. PART III. BRAZIL’S URBAN SCENE
  10. PART IV. BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS AND THE WORLD
  11. PART V. BRAZILIAN FOREST AND FIELD TO THE WORLD
  12. PART VI. BRAZIL’S NEW DIPLOMATIC ROLE IN THE WORLD
  13. List of Contributors
  14. Index