Brazil (Polity Histories) - Softcover

Wolfe, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509547762 ISBN 13: 9781509547760

Verlag: Polity, 2023

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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 – the “Tropical Trump” – 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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Joel Wolfe is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Brazilian society and politics.

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• Verlag: Polity
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1509547762
• ISBN 13: 9781509547760
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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