Product Description: Pearl Of The Paraíba No More is a case study ofBrazil’s modernization over a thirty-year span duringthe mid-twentieth century. This detailed study ofBarra do Piraí, a railroad junction and commercialcenter in the Paraíba Valley, shows that only aportion of the local population enjoyed the benefitsof modernization...read more

'Indispensable introduction to Brazil for students and general readers includes short scholarly articles, interviews, documents, photographs, and many autobiographical pieces. Begins with precontact indigenous peoples, but about half deals with Brazil since 1945. Topics include indigenous peoples, slavery, Vargas and labor, political protest, women, race relations, marginal groups, and popular culture. Overarching themes are mobility and repression'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/