Brazil :  a century of change / 
edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro ; translated by Robert N. Anderson ; foreword by Jerry Dávila. 
 - xxvi, 364 páginas :  ilustraciones, mapas 
 - Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução. Brasiliana collection .
<br/><br/>Incluye bibliografía. 
<br/><br/>A cartographic and statistical portrait of twentieth-century Brazil / Hervé Thery -- Traces of the big house and the slave quarters: social transformation in rural Brazil during the twentieth century / Afrânio Garcia and Moacir Palmeira -- Economic evolution and the international connection / Paulo Singer -- Brazil and the world / Celso Lafer -- Culture and society / Renato Ortiz -- From the patrimonial state to the managerial state / Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira -- Political transition and the (un)rule of law in the republic / Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro -- Federalism and national identity / Aspásia Camargo -- Amazonia: past progress and future prospects / José Seixas Lourenço -- The northeast: five hundred years of discoveries / Cristovam Buarque -- When the future arrives / Celso Furtado -- The challenges of the globalized economy / Gilberto Dupas -- Metropolises and the far west in the twenty-first century / Jorge Wilheim -- Quo Vadis, Brazil? / Ignacy Sachs. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0807859273 9780807859278 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Brasil--Civilización--Siglo XX.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>982.06  / B823 2009