{"product_id":"9781509547760","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":48257018396907,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":27.37,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781509547760-1.jpg?v=1781685729","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781509547760","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}