Gilberto Freyre

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.

"Selected congressional speeches and debates by famous sociologist and one-term congressman. Includes text and debates of 1948 bill to found the Instituto Joaquim Nabuco de Pesquisas Sociais; also includes Northeast regionalist, propresidentialist, antiracist, and antideath penalty declarations"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.