The Brazilians

Auteur

Joseph A. Page, a professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, is the author of Perón, which was translated into Spanish and became a South American bestseller. He also wrote The Revolution That Never Was and Bitter Wages.

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The most informed and meticulous study of the alluring paradoxes and extremes that characterize Brazilian culture. In The Brazilians, Page, author of the bestselling Peron, conjures a definitive portrait of "Brazilness" by distinguishing between the many opposing faces of Brazilian society.

Résumé
A country warmly hospitable and surprisingly violent, physically beautiful, yet appallingly poor,these are the contrasts Joseph Page explores in The Brazilians, a monumental book on one of the most colourful and paradoxical places on earth.Once one of the strongest market economies in the world, Brazil now struggles to emerge from a deep economic and social crisis, the latest and deepest nose-dive in a giddy roller-coaster ride that Brazilians have experienced over the past three decades. Page examines Brazil in the context of this current crisis and the events leading up to it. In so doing, he reveals the unique character of the Brazilian people and how this national character has brought the country to where it is today,teetering on the verge of joining the First World, or plunging into unprecedented environmental calamity and social upheaval. Not since Luigi Barzini's The Italians has a society been so deeply and accurately portrayed.

Contenu
Who Are the Brazilians? The Portuguese The Africans The Indians The Immigrants The Pyramid of Power in Brazil The Haves Controlling Brazillian Minds: A Case Study of the Globo Network The Have-Nots Lula and the Workers Party: Who Speaks for the Voiceless? The Curse of Violence in Brazil The Culture of Brutality Suffer the Little Children Abusing Natures Bounty The Amazon Basin: A Case Study of Violence Spiritual Brazil Roman Catholicism The Orixs Evangelicals on the Move In Search of What Makes Brazilians Brazilian Soccer Madness The Lesser Gods: Brazils Heroes The Telenovela: A National Obsession In the Land of Carnival Whither Brazil?