Brazil : a biography / Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa Maria Murgel Starling.
By: Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz [author.]
.Contributor(s): Starling, Heloisa Maria Murgel [author.].Publisher: UK : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018Description: xxvi, 760 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846147937.Uniform titles: Brasil. English Subject(s): Brazil -- History | Brazil -- CivilizationDDC classification: 981 Summary: "Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity.
Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders." -- Taken from dust jacket.
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| 981 FAU A concise history of Brazil / | 981 FAU A concise history of Brazil / | 981 ROH Brazil on the rise : | 981 SCH Brazil : | 981.06 GOR Brazil's second chance : | 981.06 REI Brazil : | 983 HIC News from the end of the earth : |
t.p. verso: "First published in Portuguese under the title Brasil: uma biografia by Companhia das Letras, 2015."
"Since Europeans first reached Brazil in 1500 it has been an unfailing source of extraordinary fascination. More than any other part of the 'New World' it displayed both the greatest beauty and grandeur and witnessed scenes of the most terrible European ferocity.
Brazil: A Biography, written by two of Brazil's leading historians and a bestseller in Brazil itself, is a remarkable attempt to convey the overwhelming diversity and challenges of this huge country from its origins to the 21st century - itself larger than the contiguous USA and still in some regions not fully mapped. The book's major themes are the near-continuous battles to create both political institutions and social frameworks that would allow stable growth, legal norms and protection for all its citizens. Brazil's failure to achieve these except in the very short term has been tragic, but even now it remains one of the world's great experiments - creative, harsh, unique and as compelling a story for its inhabitants as for outsiders." -- Taken from dust jacket.