New world in the Tropics

About this book

Brazil--a huge nation with a rapidly increasing population, enormous natural resources, and a lively cultural and political life-- is rapidly approaching the status of a great power. This book studies Brazil's historic and ethnic backgrounds, its cultural unity adn regional diversity, its ethnic and social conditions, its experiment as a European civilization in the tropics, its evolution through slavery and monarchy, its modern literature, and its world-famous architecture.