Modern Brazil

Only eighty years ago, Brazil was a predominantly agrarian society, but today most Brazilians live in an urban environment. By heavily focusing on the twenty-first century, Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna’s book moves beyond many traditional general histories to examine how this major transition affected the day-to-day lives of average Brazilians in these cities. Klein and Luna argue that Brazil’s transformation into an urban society underwrote its broader transition into a modern country more akin to other industrialised countries in the world (p. 238). Divided into nine chapters, the book thematically explains the tectonic changes that occurred from 1950 to the late 2010s to shape Brazil into the dynamic, predominantly urban society it is today. Chapter One establishes Brazil as a largely agrarian, rural society in the 1950s. Thereafter, the next two chapters account for the major political, economic and demographic changes that supported larger social transformations. Industrialisation

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