O Livro de Ouro da História do Brasil: Do Descobrimento à Globalização (Portuguese Edition)

Written by Mary Del Priore ? who has already received several awards for her work as a historian - and Renato Pinto Venâncio - Doctor of Historical Demography - the book was revised and expanded (among the changes, an unprecedented chapter on the election of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva) to give the reader the best historical information, the discovery of globalization. Anxious to show how the past can illuminate the present and sharpen the country's future, they - unlike most authors - had the task of rescuing three hundred years of colonial period, which emerged institutions we live with today. ?In it are the characteristics of nepotism and patronage which, today, we want to discard. Here, too, the country has acquired a geographical physiognomy and, due to slavery, a face that we still identify with social exclusion and poverty.' ...Read more