{"product_id":"9781509547753","title":"Brazil","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America's largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status of a failed state.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e In this vibrant and smart book, Joel Wolfe tells the story of this \"incomplete nation\" and its two-hundred-year-old struggle to control its vast national territory and to fashion and maintain a functioning democracy against a backdrop of intense inequality, racial discrimination, and regional rivalries.  From independence to the abolition of slavery, from scarring military dictatorship to the election of President Bolsonaro - the \"Tropical Trump\" - and his defeat by former President Lula da Silva, the author weaves a rich portrait of a country fighting against the odds to overcome the long-standing and seemingly intractable problems that have, for most of its history, hindered national unity and development.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity Pr","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45649365434447,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":2448.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/ja\/products\/9781509547753","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}