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Vanderbilt University historian Marshall C. Eakin provides an authoritative survey of Latin America's largest country. His broad and insightful overview reveals Brazil's many facets, including its racial melting pot (which often startles foreign visitors), economic challenges ("Brazil remains a rich country full of poor people"), and (in the book's most entertaining chapter) its carnival culture. Although Brazilians have plenty to worry about--rain forest depletion, a relatively high rate of HIV infection, and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any country in the world--Eakin suggests that Brazil is on the verge of entering "into the ranks of the great powers."
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To explain historical and contemporary Brazil for the general reader in a concise yet comprehensive format is not a small feat, but the task is expertly accomplished by a Vanderbilt University history professor. The vastness of the fifth-largest country in the world extends beyond simply its physical size to include a complexity of public and personal life--it is "a nation of paradoxes," in other words. Eakin's knowledge of and love for his subject combine to produce a riveting introduction to the basic events and trends in Brazilian history, politics, economy, society, and culture. From its days as a Portuguese colonial outpost, to its first century of independence with an emperor at its governmental head, to "the darkest and most sinister years in Brazilian history" (from the late 1960s to the early 1970s under military rule), to the present democratic days, Brazil's fascinating story is summarized but not diminished. Eakin concludes his informed account with prescriptions on how the country might realize its potential for movement out of the Third World and into the First. Brad Hooper
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Vanderbilt University historian Marshall C. Eakin provides an authoritative survey of Latin America's largest country. His broad and insightful overview reveals Brazil's many facets, including its racial melting pot (which often startles foreign visitors), economic challenges ("Brazil remains a rich country full of poor people"), and (in the book's most entertaining chapter) its carnival culture. Although Brazilians have plenty to worry about--rain forest depletion, a relatively high rate of HIV infection, and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any country in the world--Eakin suggests that Brazil is on the verge of entering "into the ranks of the great powers."
From Booklist
To explain historical and contemporary Brazil for the general reader in a concise yet comprehensive format is not a small feat, but the task is expertly accomplished by a Vanderbilt University history professor. The vastness of the fifth-largest country in the world extends beyond simply its physical size to include a complexity of public and personal life--it is "a nation of paradoxes," in other words. Eakin's knowledge of and love for his subject combine to produce a riveting introduction to the basic events and trends in Brazilian history, politics, economy, society, and culture. From its days as a Portuguese colonial outpost, to its first century of independence with an emperor at its governmental head, to "the darkest and most sinister years in Brazilian history" (from the late 1960s to the early 1970s under military rule), to the present democratic days, Brazil's fascinating story is summarized but not diminished. Eakin concludes his informed account with prescriptions on how the country might realize its potential for movement out of the Third World and into the First. Brad Hooper
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