A place in politics : São Paulo, Brazil, from seigneurial republicanism to regionalist revolt / James P. Woodard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodard, James P., 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political culture--Brazil--São Paulo--History.

Political culture.

Regionalism.

History.

São Paulo (Brazil)--Politics and government--History.

São Paulo (Brazil).

Brazil--Politics and government--1889-.

Brazil.

Politics and government.

Regionalism--Brazil--São Paulo--History.

Brazil--São Paulo.

Physical Description:

xi, 403 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.

Summary:

A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of São Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world's foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, São Paulo was an economic and demographic giant. In an era marked by political conflict and dramatic social and cultural change in Brazil, nowhere were the conflicts as intense or the changes more dramatic than in São Paulo. The southeastern state was the site of the country's most important political developments, from the contested presidential campaign of 1909-10 to the massive military revolt of 1924. Drawing on a wide array of source materials, James P. Woodard analyzes these events and the republican political culture that informed them.

Woodard's fine-grained political history proceeds chronologically from the final years of the nineteenth century, when São Paulo's leaders enjoyed political preeminence within the federal system codified by the Constitution of 1891, through the mass-mobilization of 1931-32, in which São Paulo's people marched, rioted, and eventually took up arms against the national government in what was to be Brazil's last great regionalist revolt. In taking to the streets in the name of their state, constitutionalism, and the "civilization" that they identified with both, the people of São Paulo were at once expressing their allegiance to elements of a regionally distinct political culture and converging on a broader, more participatory public sphere that had arisen amid the political conflicts of the preceding decades.

Contents:

Sao Paulo as a developing society

A republic of layers

War and the health of the state

Knaves, pedants, and rebels

An experiment in democracy

Moments and truths.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-391) and index.

ISBN:

9780822343462

0822343460

9780822343295

0822343290

OCLC:

276995550