Brazil : a biography
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Starling, Heloisa Maria Murgel author.
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Grand Canyon Community Library - Non-Fiction
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Book
Physical Desc
xxvi, 761 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
UPC
40028446260
Notes
General Note
Translated from Portuguese.
General Note
Originally published as : Brasil: uma biografia. Brazil : Companhia das Letras, 2015.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description
Written by two leading historians, Brazil: A Biography is a sweeping and absorbing portrait of Brazil from its origins to the twenty-first century. 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. Brazile received more than 40 percent of the African population that was stolen from the continent, and was the last country in the Western world to abolish the slave system. Brazil is larger than the contiguous United States and occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, yet it remains largely unknown. In an extraordinary journey that spans more than five hundred years, from the Amerindian civilization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich and 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, literature, 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, postcolonial political dysfunction, and inequality persist to this day. Even now, Brazil stands as one of the world's great experiements - creative, harsh, unique, and as compelling a story for outsiders as for its inhabitants. -- From dust jacket.
Language
Translated from Portuguese.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Schwarcz, L. M., & Starling, H. M. M. (2018). Brazil: a biography (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz and Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling. 2018. Brazil: A Biography. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz and Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling. Brazil: A Biography Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz, and Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling. Brazil: A Biography First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
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