Modern Brazil

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-108-48902-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 432 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna present a sweeping narrative of social change in Brazil that documents its transition from a predominantly rural and illiterate society in 1950, to an overwhelmingly urban, modern, and literate society in the twenty-first century. Tracing this radical evolution reveals how industrialization created a new labor force, how demographic shifts reorganized the family and social attitudes, and how urban life emerged in what is now one of the most important industrial economies in the world. A paradigm for modern social histories, the book also examines changes in social stratification and mobility, the decline of regional disparities, education, social welfare, race, and gender. By analyzing Brazil's unprecedented political, economic, and social changes in the late twentieth and twenty-first century, the authors address an under-explored area in current scholarship and offer an invaluable resource for scholars of Latin American and Brazil.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klein, Herbert S

Luna, Francisco Vidal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of maps; List of graphs; List of tables; Introduction; 1. Brazil at mid-century; 2. Political and economic evolution of Brazil; 3. Demographic change; 4. Women, family and work; 5. The Welfare State and income transfers; 6. Urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first century; 7. Stratification and mobility; 8. Race and stratification; 9. Organization of civil society; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Luna, Francisco Vidal
Francisco Vidal Luna is Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Economics and Administration (FEA) at the Universidade de São Paulo.

Klein, Herbert S
Herbert S. Klein is Gouverneur Morris Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University and Research Fellow and Latin American Curator at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California.