The Brazilians

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 colorful 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.

Author: Joseph A. Page
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/06/1996
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 9.03h x 6.00w x 1.19d
ISBN13: 9780201441918
ISBN10: 0201441918
BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America | South America
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
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.