Power and the ruling classes in northeast Brazil

First Sentence

This report from a Recife newspaper provides a glimpse of political-economic life in the early 1970s in Juazeiro and Petrolina, neighboring towns of some sixty thousand inhabitants each that are closely linked to each other, to their respective states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast, to the federal government centered in Brasilia, and, increasingly, to international capital.

Excerpt

This report from a Recife newspaper provides a glimpse of political-economic life in the early 1970s in Juazeiro and Petrolina, neighboring towns of some sixty thousand inhabitants each that are closely linked to each other, to their respective states of Bahia and Pernambuco in the Brazilian Northeast, to the federal government centered in Brasilia, and, increasingly, to international capital.

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Series Statement

• Cambridge Latin American studies ;

Other Editions

• Power and the ruling classes in northeast Brazil: Juazeiro and Petrolina in transitionCambridge University Press1990-01-01
• Power and the ruling classes in northeast BrazilCambridge University Press2006-01-01
• Power and the Ruling Classes in Northeast BrazilPaperbackCambridge University Press2006-11-02