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Brazil is currently in a critical phase of a decades-long transformation from a patrimonial society-based on the cultivation and export of sugar and coffee-to a modernized industrial and service economy with effective democratic governance. It is the world’s fifth largest nation-state in area and population, and ranks eighth in total economic output. Since World War II, Brazil has been a leader in international trade governance and negotiation, playing an important part in development of the GATT and the WTO. Currently, the country is a major factor in negotiations toward a hemispherewide Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). However, Brazil’s political record in the past half century has been erratic and it has struggled with high inflation and balance-of-payment deficits. In this major new work, a former American ambassador to Brazil examines the social, political, and economic history of the country since the 1930s and discusses whether Brazil is now ready to assume a place as an important participant among First World nations.

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Brazil’s Second Chance: En Route Toward the First World

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Social and feminist historians will certainly applaud the sensitivity with which this book unveils the duress of servants’ working and living conditions without neglecting to portray human endurance and individual or collective resistance to oppression from above. Everybody will read with great pleasure this creative, well argued and elegantly written book. ” –Journal of Latin American Studies During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection–as well as oppression–while the street could be dangerous–but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. Houseand Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.

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House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro

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Brazil: A Century of World Cup Football is:

A critical analysis and comparison of the play of Brazil, Germany and Italy in the World Cup.
A comprehensive appraisal of football’s two greatest players – Pele and Maradona – goal for goal; skill for skill; and championships won for championships won.
Relive the philosophy, decent conduct and tactics, and the beautiful football that made Pele, Brazil and soccer so popular all over the world.
When excerpts from the book were published in newspapers in Nigeria; Canada; Turkey; Ghana; Kenya; Cameroon; South Africa; and Egypt, there were reports of widespread joy and excitement amongst those who read.
That joy and excitement, which only the highest calibre of World Cup play can elicit – as it was in 1958, 1962, 1970, and 1994 – reverberate through every page of this book. This is what we expect from Brazil at South Africa 2010.

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Anthony Ikpong is a Nigerian soccer fan who lives in Canada, where he is a Bridge Engineer by profession … For a man whose discipline is engineering, the depth and dazzle of Anthony’s writing will leave you enthralled. So get ready for a thrill of your life as Anthony takes you through the 20th Century of World Cup Football!
—-Dave Enechukwu, Post Express – Lagos

Anthony Ikpong, the author of this book, is noted for his fierce debates about soccer matters and he enjoys the respect of some of the leading soccer publications in Africa and Canada including CAF News. He occasionally writes for the Sowetan.
—-Molefi Mika, The Sowetan – Johannesburg

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