Title: Vargas and Brazil : new perspectives /
Authors: Hentschke, Jens R.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Vargas, Getúlio,; Historiography Brazil.; Historiography; HISTORY Latin America South America.; Brazil History Historiography.; Brazil History Historiography.
Abstract: 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.
Contents: The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas: An Introduction / J.R. Hentschke -- The Origins of an "Enigma:" Getulio Vargas between Rio Grande do Sul's Decaying coronelismo and the Genesis of the Interventionist State / G. Axt -- Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro / D. Williams -- "All for Sao Paulo, All for Brazil:" Vargas, the Paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil / J.P. Woodard -- The Military and the Dictatorship: Getulio, Goes, and Dutra / F.D. McCann -- Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition During the Estado Novo (1937-45) / J.J. Crocitti -- Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control / O. Dinius -- Vargas on Film: From the Newsreels to the Chanchadas / L. Shaw -- "I choose this means to be with you always": Getulio Vargas's Carta Testamento / T.D. Rogers -- Myth and Memory: Getulio Vargas's Long Shadow over Brazilian History / J. Davila.