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Brazil
A Biography
2015
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This book offers a rich, dramatic history of this complex country. The authors not only reconstruct the epic story of the nation but follow the shifting byways of food, art, and popular culture; the plights of minorities; and the ups and downs of economic cycles. Drawing on a range of original scholarship in history, anthropology, political science, and economics, Schwarcz and Starling reveal a long process of unfinished social, political, and economic progress and struggle, a story in which the troubled legacy of the mixing of races and postcolonial political dysfunction persist to this day.
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Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Author · 11 books
Nasceu em 1957, em São Paulo. É professora titular no Departamento de Antropologia da USP. Seu livro As barbas do imperador - D. Pedro II, um monarca nos trópicos ganhou o prêmio Jabuti Livro do Ano, em 1999. Além deste, publicou também: O espetáculo das raças, O sol do Brasil (prêmio Jabuti de melhor biografia, 2009), D. João carioca - história em quadrinhos sobre a chegada da corte portuguesa ao Brasil, em coautoria com Spacca -, entre outros livros.
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