{"product_id":"brazil-9781509547760","title":"Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status of a failed state. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this vibrant and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this \"incomplete nation\" and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial discrimination, and regional rivalries. From independence to the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to the election of President Bolsonaro - the \"Tropical Trump\" - and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and development.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoel Wolfe\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of numerous articles and books on Brazilian society and politics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Polity Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50509646790930,"sku":"9781509547760","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_db5b737d-e0bb-4e3b-bae2-06a9b2f6e9ab.jpg?v=1730903923","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brazil-9781509547760","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}