Joel WolfeAutos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity

February 4, 2015

[Cross-posted from New Books in History] Here's something I learned by reading Joel Wolfe's terrific Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search for Modernity (Oxford, 2010): the United States and Brazil have a lot in common. Both hived off European empires; both struggled with slavery and its legacy; both are profoundly multiethnic and multiracial; both have spent much of their […]

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