BRAZIL A BIOGRAPHY

A sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present

For many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown.

In an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's Brazil offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country. The authors not only reconstruct the epic story of the nation but follow the shifting byways of food, art, and popular culture; the plights of minorities; and the ups and downs of economic cycles. Drawing on a range of original scholarship in history, anthropology, political science, and economics, Schwarcz and Starling reveal a long process of unfinished social, political, and economic progress and struggle, a story in which the troubled legacy of the mixing of races and postcolonial political dysfunction persist to this day.

O biografie cuprinzatoare si absorbanta a Braziliei, din secolul al XVI-lea pana in prezent Pentru multi americani, Brazilia este o tara a contradictiilor: resurse naturale vaste si coruptie inradacinata; bogatie extraordinara si saracie macinanta; plaje frumoase si favele rupte de violenta. Brazilia ocupa un loc viu in imaginatia americana si totusi ramane in mare parte necunoscuta.Intr-o calatorie extraordinara care se intinde pe cinci sute de ani, de la colonizarea europeana la Jocurile Olimpice de vara din 2016, Lilia M.