Culture Wars in Brazil
Subtitle: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: June 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780822327080
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Cultural studies; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; Cultural policy; History - General History; Politics and government; Brazil; Latin America - General; Latin America - South America; History, Latin American; Latin American Studies; Vargas, Getulio; 1930-1945; History; Politics and culture
First sentence: At the height of the authoritarian Estado Novo, the infamous Department of Press and Propaganda published an essay, written by Oswaldo Teixeira, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts and well-known painter, which acclaimed Getulio Vargas as a peer to Cosimo de Medici, the wealthy fifteenth-century banker who helped make Florence into the political and cultural epicenter of the Italian Renaissance.