New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil by Gilberto Freyre [FIRST EDITION] 1959 • Knopf

New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil by Gilberto Freyre 

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1959] ALFRED A. KNOPF

Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition. 

Dust jacket has some mild wear to edges; a few nicks and some general shelf wear; but overall clean, sharp and in tact.  Looks great in a new HQ jacket protector.

Book itself is near mint.  Pristine tight blue cloth boards.  Reads good as new with a hint of tanning. 

Brazil's foremost serious writer has now written in English one of the best books of any sort ever produced on his country.

Brazil-a huge nation with a rapidly increasing population, enormous natural resources, and a lively cultural and political life is rapidly approaching the status of a great power. In this book, Gilberto Freyre-internationally distinguished as a sociologist, author of The Masters and the Slaves-begins with Brazil's historic and ethnic backgrounds. Then he examines its cultural unity and regional diversity, its ethnic and social conditions, its experiment as a European civilization in the tropics, its evolution through slavery and monarchy, its modern literature, and its world-famous architecture.

Of particular interest to Americans will be Senhor Freyre's picture of Brazil's ways of solving the problem we now know as "desegregation." But that is only one of the topics dealt with in a brilliant, deeply thoughtful, and thought-inducing book.