02266cam a2200325 i 4500 353170309 TxAuBib 20180919120000.0 180511s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018021716 9780374280499 40.00 0374280495 40.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda eng por Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz. Brasil: Uma Biografia English. Brazil [BOOK] : a biography / Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018. xxvi, 761 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes index. "Originally published in Portuguese in 2015 by Companhia das Letras, Brazil, as Brasil: Uma Biografia" -Title page verso. 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. Provided by publisher. 20180919. Brazil History. Brazil Civilization. Starling, Heloisa Maria Murgel.