TY - BOOK ID - 78071347 TI - Emergent Brazil : key perspectives on a new global power AU - Needell, Jeffrey D. AU - Campello, Daniela PY - 2015 SN - 0813050944 9780813055381 0813055385 9780813050942 9780813060675 0813060672 PB - Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, DB - UniCat KW - Globalization KW - Global cities KW - Globalisation KW - Internationalization KW - International relations KW - Anti-globalization movement KW - Brazil KW - History. KW - Foreign relations KW - Economic conditions. KW - History KW - Economic conditions KW - Globalization - Brazil KW - Brazil - History KW - Brazil - Foreign relations - 20th century KW - Brazil - Economic conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78071347 AB - For decades, scholars and journalists have hailed the enormous potential of Brazil, which has been one of the world's largest economies for the last twenty years. But its promise has too often been curtailed by dictatorship, racism, poverty, and violence. Offering an interdisciplinary approach to the critical issues facing Brazil, the contributors to this volume analyze the democratization of the country's media, its nuclear capabilities, changing crime rates, the spread of Pentecostalism and indigenous religions, the development of popular culture, the growth of Brazilian agribusiness, and ER -