Brazil: The Once and Future Country

by Marshall C. Eakin

Overview

As the most comprehensive introduction to Brazil available in English, Brazil: The Once and Future Country shows Brazil to be a land of the marvellous and the mystical, the sublime and the tragic. Eakin describes a country defined by paradoxes: immense wealth surrounded by widespread poverty, a modern industrial infrastructure alongside an outmoded agricultural system, a largely white South and a Northeastern coast that is overwhelmingly of African descent. Eakin chronicles Brazil's development from its origins in the sixteenth century, when it was created as a by-product of European imperial expansion, to the present day. He takes the reader from the hovels of Sao Paolo to the pleasure palaces of Rio de Janeiro and all places in between to show the rich cultural mix that is Brazil. Brazil: The Once and Future Country is a fascinating read that anyone interested in Brazil will want. It is also the perfect book for the traveller, armchair or otherwise, interested in this endlessly fascinating country.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312214456
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/13/1999
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	301
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

MARSHALL C. EAKIN is Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: The Country of the Future? The Presence of the Past The Brazilian Archipelago Lusotropical Civilization Power and Patronage A Flawed Industrial Revolution Conclusion: The Once and Future Country Appendices Suggested Readings in English Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“...a riveting introduction to the basic events and trends in Brazilian history, politics, economy, society and culture.” —Booklist

“Eakin draws on 20 years of experience visiting and writing about Brazil to produce an eloquent and informative overview, the best short survey of Brazil since the anthropologist Charles Wagley's 1963 classic, An Introduction to Brazil.” —Foreign Affairs