Latin American Review of Books

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A nation incomplete

Brazil, Joel Wolfe, 2023, Polity, reviewed by Gavin O'Toole, 29 May 2023

Latin American Review of Books
May 29, 2023
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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 …

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