The Economic and Social History of Brazil since 1889 - Softcover

Luna, Francisco Vidal; Klein, Herbert S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107616581 ISBN 13: 9781107616585

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day. The authors elucidate the basic trends that have defined modern Brazilian society and economy. In this period Brazil moved from being a mostly rural traditional agriculture society with only light industry and low levels of human capital to a modern literate and industrial nation. It has also transformed itself into one of the world's most important agricultural exporters. How and why this occurred is explained in this important survey.

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Book Description:

This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end of the empire in 1889 to the present day.

About the Author:

Francisco Vidal Luna received his PhD in Economics in 1980 from the Universidade de São Paulo in São Paulo, Brazil, where he also was Professor of Economics until 1997. Author of some 50 articles and papers and 11 books on Brazilian economic history and the Brazilian economy, he has been an academic, a government administrator, and a banker.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107616581
• ISBN 13: 9781107616585
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454