The University of North Carolina Press

392 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 12 fig., 1 map, notes, bibl., index

Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução --The Brasiliana Collection

Cloth

ISBN  978-0-8078-3130-4

Published: April 2009

Paper

ISBN  978-0-8078-5927-8

Published: April 2009

Brazil

A Century of Change

Edited By Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro

Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.

All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies of social and economic inequality remain to be addressed in the new century. A foreword by Jerry Dávila highlights the volumes contributions for a new, English-reading audience.

The contributors are Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Cristovam Buarque, Aspásia Camargo, Gilberto Dupas, Celso Furtado, Afrânio Garcia, Celso Lafer, José Seixas Lourenço, Renato Ortiz, Moacir Palmeira, Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, Ignacy Sachs, Paulo Singer, Hervé Thery, and Jorge Wilheim.

About the Author

Ignacy Sachs is professor at the School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. Jorge Wilheim is a Brazilian architect, planner, and former government official. Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro is professor of political science at the University of São Paulo. Translator Robert N. Anderson is associate professor of Portuguese at Winston-Salem State University. Jerry Dávila is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.