{"product_id":"brazil-lilia-m-schwarcz-9780374538484","title":"Brazil: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping and absorbing biography of Brazil, from the sixteenth century to the present\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor many Americans, Brazil is a land of contradictions: vast natural resources and entrenched corruption; extraordinary wealth and grinding poverty; beautiful beaches and violence-torn favelas. Brazil occupies a vivid place in the American imagination, and yet it remains largely unknown. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn an extraordinary journey that spans five hundred years, from European colonization to the 2016 Summer Olympics, Lilia M. Schwarcz and Heloisa M. Starling's \u003ci\u003eBrazil\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lilia M. Schwarcz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374538484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374538484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martins Press-3PL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 816\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.18lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.50w x 1.80d","brand":"Lilia M. Schwarcz","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047962800383,"sku":"9780374538484","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a72c3cce-35f2-42bd-b178-2c87ef67ef2d.jpg?v=1684993135","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/brazil-lilia-m-schwarcz-9780374538484","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}