Brazil: the troubled rise of a global power

Introduction : a new power. Brazil's troubled rise

The Brazilian way of life

Part I. History from geography. The forging of a people

From monarchy to coffee republic

Getúlio Vargas and 'national developmentalism'

The long dictatorship

Part II. The making of democratic Brazil. From disorder to progress under Cardoso

Lulismo and the Brazilian dream

The long road to a middle-class society

Oil, farming and the Amazon

Brazil's guided capitalism

Part III. Prospects. Global ambitions and frustrations

An unreformed Leviathan

Brazil's century?

Introduction : a new power

Brazil's troubled rise

The Brazilian way of life

Part I: History from geography

The forging of a people

From monarchy to coffee republic

Getulio Vargas and 'national developmentalism'

The long dictatorship

Part II: The making of democratic Brazil

From disorder to progress under Cardoso

Lulismo and the Brazilian dream

The long road to a middle-class society

Oil, farming and the Amazon

Brazil's guided capitalism

Part III: Prospects

Global ambitions and frustrations

An unreformed Leviathan

Brazil's century?