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Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
This groundbreaking work is the first volume in English to examine Brazil's historic policy reforms of the 1990s and the political, economic, and social results. For years the large and ineffective government of Brazil could neither improve the country's greatly uneven distribution of wealth nor maintain inflation at reasonable levels. In the 1990s, long overdue changes bettered the government's fiscal performance, tamed inflation, and addressed chronic social ills stemming from the imbalance of wealth. But many problems, and many questions, remain. Why is Brazil still so poor, and why is inequality so intransigent? Were some of the reforms counterproductive, or could they have been implemented in a more effective way? Collecting essays by top Brazilianist scholars from various disciplines and intellectual traditions, Reforming Brazil provides new insights for international policy makers, economists, and scholars of Brazil.
Contains updated papers originally presented at a February 1993 conference held in Miami, Florida, examining Brazil's ongoing political development and the interaction between corruption and political reform in Latin America's democratization process. Reviews the dynamics of the impeachment of Fernando Collor de Mello and subsequent efforts at polemical reform within the Brazilian political system to shed light on the progress of Brazil's political modernization effort. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
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QUEM É ESSE POLÍTICO SEM O QUAL NÃO SE PODE CONTAR A HISTÓRIA RECENTE DE NOSSO PAÍS? Que homem é esse? Que político é esse? Como Sarney avalia a sua trajetória, os momentos mais marcantes que viveu no poder? Sarney sempre esteve no poder! Como seus amigos o veem? E como o veem os seus inimigos, aos quais Sarney se refere como ¿adversários¿? A jornalista e escritora Regina passou os últimos cinco anos tratando de escrever este livro que, enfim, ganha as livrarias de todo o país. Ela tem algumas das respostas. Sem ódios nem paixões, esta biografia foi escrita para que o leitor tire suas próprias conclusões sobre quem é José Sarney.