Brazil Apart - 19642019

What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's most populous society, and how has it come about?

Perry Anderson, foremost observer of the Brazilian scene in the English-speaking world, offers a matchless account of the country's recent political upheavals: after the dashed hopes of the Cardoso years, the soaring popularity of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; the parliamentary coup d'état against his successor, Dilma; and the sweeping election victory of Bolsonaro, backed by the Armed Forces and a youthful new right.

Always something of a world unto itself, under the Workers' Party, Brazil had bucked the global trend towards a tighter neoliberalism. With its lodestar, Lula, now behind bars, a weighing up of the PT's legacy, and of the contrasting Bolsonaro regime, is urgently needed.

About the author

Perry Anderson is the author of, among other books, Spectrum, Lineages of the Absolutist State, Passages from Antiquity to Feudalism, Considerations on Western Marxism, English Questions, The Origins of Postmodernity, and The New Old World. He taught History at UCLA for thirty years and is on the editorial board of New Left Review.

Summary

Leading English-language account of the fall of Lula's Workers' Party and rise of Bolsonaro and the New Right

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Product details

• Authors: Perry Anderson
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781788737944
• ISBN: 978-1-78873-794-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; Brazil, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, HISTORY / Latin America / Central America, Politics & government, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Politics and government, History of the Americas, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)