A nation incomplete
Brazil, Joel Wolfe, 2023, Polity, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole, 29 May 2023
Brazil, Joel Wolfe, 2023, Polity
Economy is a virtue in the teaching of history by forcing the scholar to look carefully at long periods in order to decant key explanatory themes.
Joel Wolfe’s pocket-sized history of Brazil is a skilful example of this, isolating for readers the underlying trends and issues in the complex story of Latin America’s largest …