Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century

Author/Contributor(s):	Woodard, James P
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	05/18/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"James P. Woodard's history of capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and penetrating enough to serve as a history of modern Brazil itself. It tells how a modernizing consumer culture and a new economic outlook took hold over the course of the twentieth century, a time when the United States became Brazil's most important trading partner and the tastemaker of its better-heeled citizens"--