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Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives (Studies of the Americas)
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by Jens R. Hentschke
Sales Rank: 2178862
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List Price: $74.95
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 320 pages
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan December 12, 2006
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1403973911
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1403973917
Book Dimensions:
8.3 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"Latin American politics moves in cycles, and now is the turn of populism, after decades of military dictatorship and attempts at democratic stabilization. Getúlio Vargas, who ruled Brazil from 1930 to 1954, started as a modernizing politician, embraced fascism in the 1930s, played the democratic game after the war, and died as populist leader in 1954. This book, which looks in depth at his period with fresh contributions and insights from a new generation of scholars, is an great introduction for understanding how Brazil became what it is now, and of what the current cycle of populism can bring to the country and the region as a whole."
--Simon Schwartzman, President, Institute for Studies on Labor and Society (IETS), Rio de Janeiro
"Jens R. Hentschke has assembled a cadre of first class Brazilianists to help bring Getúlio Vargas and his era into contemporary focus. All Latin Americanists will benefit enormously from this great and comprehensive volume."
--Thomas E. Skidmore, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
"This is an innovative collection of essays that looks at the way Vargas and his social and political programs shaped the interpretation of an era. The contributing authors view familiar features of the Vargas era through a new lens, such as the effectiveness of Vargas's welfare programs via a discussion of malnutrition, or the way the public has greeted the monument to him that now stands in Rio de Janeiro. In general the book asks, 'How do we read the Carta?' (Vargas's suicide note that he wrote over the last weeks of his life) and in so doing it raises the question, 'How do we read Vargas?'"
--Teresa Meade, Union College, and author of "Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930
Product Description
More than seventy-five years after Getúlio Vargas’s 1930 “Revolution” and more than half a century after his suicide, politicians, scholars and the Brazilian public still debate whether his era has actually come to an end. Yet, as Brazil’s leading news magazine Veja emphasized in August 2004, Vargas’s enigma will not be deciphered through uncritical studies and hagiographic novels, but through serious scholarly analyses. Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the 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, thereby exploring why he meant so many different things to different people.
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