Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: A New Power
6. 1. Brazil’s Troubled Rise 3
7. 2. The Brazilian Way of Life 12
8. Part I: History from Geography
9. 3. The Forging of a People 27
10. 4. From Monarchy to Coffee Republic 54
11. 5. Getúlio Vargas and ‘National Developmentalism’ 79
12. 6. The Long Dictatorship 99
13. Part II: The Making of Democratic Brazil
14. 7. From Disorder to Progress under Cardoso 117
15. 8. Lulismo and the Brazilian Dream 140
16. 9. The Long Road to a Middle- class Society 164
17. 10. Oil, Farming and the Amazon 192
18. 11. Brazil’s Guided Capitalism 214
19. Part III: Prospects
20. 12. Global Ambitions and Frustrations 239
21. 13. An Unreformed Leviathan 263
22. 14. Brazil’s Century? 282
23. Postscript 292
24. Notes 299
25. Bibliography 319
26. Index 325