Brazil since 1980

by Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna

This is a general survey of Brazilian society, economy, and political system since 1980. It describes the basic changes occurring as Brazil was transformed from a predominantly rural and closed economy under military rule into a modern democratic, industrial and urbanized society, with an extraordinary world class commercial agriculture in the past 60 years. In this period, Brazil passed from a pre-modern high fertility and mortality society to a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521820448
• ISBN13: 9780521820448
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.2"