TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reid,Michael
TI  - Brazil : the troubled rise of a global power 
SN  - 9780300216974
AV  - F2521 .R43 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Social change
KW  - Brazil
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-317) and index; 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?
N2  - Examines the South American country that is destined to be one of the world's premier economic powers by the year 2030, and considers some of the abundant problems the nation faces
ER  -