{"product_id":"brazil-a-biography-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLilia M. Schwarcz\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1957 in São Paulo, Brazil. She is a professor of anthropology at the University of São Paulo, a visiting professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures and the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor's Beard\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Spectacle of the Races.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeloisa M. Starling\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of history at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and the author of \u003ci\u003eMemories of Brazil\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lords of Gerais\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717720314130,"sku":"9780374538484","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3f376def-b8b6-4896-aab2-1c29315a7607.jpg?v=1734624459","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brazil-a-biography-9780374538484","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}