Vargas and Brazil : new perspectives / edited by Jens R. Hentschke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hentschke, Jens R.

Series:

Studies of the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vargas, Getúlio, 1883-1954.

Vargas, Getúlio.

History.

Historiography.

Brazil--History--1930-1945--Historiography.

Brazil.

Brazil--History--1945-1954--Historiography.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

Contents:

1 The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model Revisited: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction / Jens R. Hentschke 1

2 The Origins of an "Enigma": Getulio Vargas, Rio Grande do Sul's Decaying coronelismo, and the Genesis of the Interventionist State before the 1930 Revolution / Gunter Axt 31

3 Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro / Daryle Williams 55

4 "All for Sao Paulo, All for Brazil": Vargas, the Paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil / James P. Woodard 83

5 The Military and the Dictatorship: Getulio, Goes, and Dutra / Frank D. McCann 109

6 Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937-45) / John J. Crocitti 143

7 Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control / Oliver Dinius 173

8 Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the chanchada / Lisa Shaw 207

9 "I Choose This Means to Be With You Always": Getulio Vargas's Carta Testamento / Thomas D. Rogers 227

10 Myth and Memory: Getulio Vargas's Long Shadow over Brazilian History / Jerry Davila 257.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403973911

9781403973917

OCLC:

65978712

Publisher Number:

9781403973917

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