Marshall C. Eakin

The Emergence of Brazil on the World Stage

Brazil as an Economic Superpower? Understanding Brazil’s Changing Role in the Global Economy. Edited by Lael Brainard and Leonardo Martinez-Diaz. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2009. Pp. viii + 291.

Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism by Richard A. Gordon (review)

52.95 cloth.

Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil

24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780815702962. Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus. By Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009. Pp. x + 301.

Lucha electoral y sistema politico en Costa Rica, 1948-1998 (review)

65.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781588266248. Starting Over: Brazil since 1985. By Albert Fishlow. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. Pp. x + 236.

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence: State Building on a Brazilian Frontier, 1822-1889 (review)

34.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780815721437. The New Brazil. By Riordan Roett. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. Pp. vii + 178.

Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil . By Jeffrey Lesser. (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 281. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

29.95 cloth. ISBN: 9780815704232. Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed. By Larry Rohter. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pp. 289.

17.95.)

27.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780230618879. Brazil: A Century of Change. Edited by Ignacy Sachs, Jorge Wilheim, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro. Translated by Robert N. Anderson. Foreword by Jerry Dávila. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2009. Pp. xxvi + 364.

British Enterprise in Brazil: The St. John d'el Rey Mining Company and the Morro Velho Gold Mine, 1830-1960

65.00 cloth.

Brazil: The Once and Future Country

24.95 paper. ISBN: 9780807859278.

Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues

Cinema offers us a window into the soul of a nation—glimpses of how a people think about themselves and their identities. Richard Gordon’s new book looks closely at five films dealing with Brazilian slavery, produced from the mid 1970s to the early 2000s. He seeks “to understand better how the films invite individuals to rethink the collection of attributes they assign to the national category of their social identities” (4).