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Vargas and Brazil : New Perspectives / edited by J. Hentschke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies of the Americas
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Politics and government.
- America.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Political science.
- American Politics.
- Latin American Culture.
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- American Politics.
- Latin American Culture.
- Political Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (321 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2006.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the Vargas literature, hitherto unavailable or unused sources, and a wide array of methodologies, to shed new light on the political changes and cultural representations of Vargas's regimes, realising why he meant different things to different people.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Contributors; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model Revisited: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction; 2 The Origins of an ""Enigma"": Getúlio Vargas, Rio Grande do Sul's Decaying coronelismo, and the Genesis of the Interventionist State before the...; 3 Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro; 4 ""All for São Paulo, All for Brazil"": Vargas, the Paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil
- 5 The Military and the Dictatorship: Getúlio, Góes, and Dutra6 Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937-45); 7 Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control; 8 Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the chanchada; 9 ""I Choose This Means to Be With You Always"": Getúlio Vargas's Carta Testamento; 10 Myth and Memory: Getúlio Vargas's Long Shadow over Brazilian History; Glossary; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611361259
- 9781281361257
- 1281361259
- 9780230601758
- 0230601758
- OCLC:
- 315809847
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