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  title info:
    title: Brazil
    sub title: a biography
  title info:
    title: Brasil. English
  name:
    name part: Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Starling, Heloisa Maria Murgel
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First American edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: por
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 761 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions, vast natural resources and entrenched corruption, extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty, beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country. The authors not only reconstruct the epic story of the nation but follow the shifting byways of food, art and popular culture, the plights of minorities and the ups and downs of economic cycles. Drawing on a range of original scholarship in history, anthropology, political science and economics, Schwarcz and Starling reveal a long process of unfinished social, political and economic progress and struggle, a story in which the troubled legacy of the mixing of races and postcolonial political dysfunction persist to this day.
  table of contents: Introduction : "Brazil is just nearby" -- First came the name, and then the land called Brazil -- The sugar civilization : bitter for the many, sweet for a few -- Tit for tat : slavery and the naturalization of violence -- Gold! -- Revolt, conspiracy and sedition in the tropical paradise -- Ship ahoy! a court at sea -- Dom João and his court in the tropics -- The father leaves, the son remains -- Independence habemus : instability in the First empire -- Regencies, or the sound of silence -- The second reign : at last, a nation in the tropics -- The end of the monarchy in Brazil -- The first republic : the people take to the streets -- Samba, malandragem, authoritarianism : the birth of modern Brazil -- Yes, we have democracy! -- The 1950s and 1960s : bossa- nova, democracy and underdevelopment -- On a knife edge : dictatorship, opposition and resistance -- On the path to democracy : the transition to civilian power and the ambiguities and legacy of the military dictatorship -- Conclusion : history is not arithmetic.
  note: Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling.
  note: Originally published as : Brasil: uma biografia. Brazil : Companhia das Letras, 2015.
  note: Translated from Portuguese.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: s-bl---
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    geographic: Brazil
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Latin America / South America
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies
  subject:
    topic: TRAVEL / South America / Brazil
  classification: F2510 .S38713 2018
  classification: 981
  identifier: 9780374280499
  identifier: 0374280495
  identifier: 2018021716
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180511
    record change date: 20190122115902.0
    record identifier: in00004003341