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Brazil and the Americas: Convergences and Perspectives

By (eds.) , Peter Birle; Sérgio Costa; Horst Nitschack

Book information

Publisher
Iberoamericana; Vervuert
Year
2008
ISBN
9788484893752, 9783865274014
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
866 kB (887125 bytes)
Series
Bibliotheca Ibero-Americana ; 120
Pages
239\239
Orientation
yes
Paginated
no
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2021-01-16 17:45:42
Brazil; Brasil; Americas; América latina; Latin Am

Description

The book that the reader has in hand, the fruit of an interdisciplinary seminar held in Berlin in December 2004 which brought together scholars from Germany and different regions of the Americas, is guided by a dual perspective and objective, a fact reflected by the authors and themes that it brings together. It is on one hand, a view from outside Brazil that seeks to understand how Brazilian society is responding to the processes of global integration. At the same time, there is also an internal perspective of observation that documents the plurality of ways that social actors and analysts interpret the transformations underway. The common thread of the various perspectives of analysis involved, which, therefore, unifies the different articles joined here, is not their focus on Brazil, but more properly the interest in the relations between Brazil and the world, based on the context of the Americas. It can be said that it is not a book about Brazil, but of a set of reflections, oriented by the case of a specific country, about the way that local, regional and global processes and contexts have been interweaving in various fields.

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