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Father of the Poor?
This book examines the life, times, and legacy of Getúlio Vargas, Brazil's dictator and president during most of the period from 1930 to 1954. Levine's chief concern is how Vargas' legacy influenced Brazil, and to what extent his social legislation affected people's lives. Vargas ignored individual rights, working for state-regulated citizenship without disharmony, without the right to dissent. His revolution was partial; one in which new constituencies and rules were grafted onto traditional political practices. Vargas devoted as much effort to manipulating workers as he did to benefiting them. By the end of his long tenure in power, some things had hardly changed at all: the readiness of ...
O trabalho mestiço
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Las Derechas
This is the first book explicitly to compare extreme right-wing organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. It shows how extreme rightist class and gender composition, motives, programs, and activities varied over time and between countries. It concludes by demonstrating the importance of the analysis for understanding present conditions.
A British Enterprise in Brazil
Marshall Eakin presents what may be the most detailed study ever written about the operations of a foreign business in Latin America and the first scholarly, book-length study of any foreign business enterprise in Brazil. Between 1830 and 1970 the British-owned St. John d’el Rey Mining Company, Ltd. constructed a diverse business conglomerate around Minas Gerais, South America’s largest gold mine, in Nova Lima. Until the 1950s the company was the largest industrial firm and the largest taxpayer in Brazil’s most populous state. Utilizing company and local archives, Eakin shows that the company was surprisingly ineffective in translating economic success into political influence in Brazil. The most impressive impact of the British operation was at the local level, transforming a small, agrarian community into a sizable industrial city. Virtually a company town, Nova Lima experienced a small-scale industrial revolution as the community made the transition from the largest industrial slave complex in Brazil to a working-class city torn by labor strife and violence between communists and their opponents.
O ardil totalitário
Este livro não é uma história convencional da política brasileira e também não se limita à “história das mentalidades”. Para definir sua forma, seria necessário colocá-lo no rol das “descidas ao inferno” ao modo de Jean Starobinski. Trata-se de identificar as máscaras totalitárias, repelir o seu falso sorriso, dirigindo os olhos para o outro lado da retórica que hipnotiza os intelectuais, as massas, os líderes. Finda a leitura, podemos encarar o nosso tempo sem medo. Se uma fantasmagoria tão sinistra, como o pensamento totalitário, não conseguiu destruir a arte política, se depois da tormenta veio um interregno democrático no mundo, ainda resta esperança para nós e para nossos filhos. Neste livro lateja semelhante certeza, o que lhe confere a dignidade e a eminência de um essencial trabalho do espírito.
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Panorama de la historia del libro y de la bibliografía
Esta obra se propone trazar un recorrido cronológico y relacional entre los diferentes actores, prácticas, productos e instituciones bibliográficas que perfilan el libro a lo largo de su extensa historia. En primer lugar, se construye la genealogía de la escritura y del libro, y se presentan las "civilizaciones" del alfabeto. Luego, se establece la relación entre el cristianismo y los libros, que se traslada a la cultura bibliográfica en la Edad Media. A continuación, se articula el paisaje del libro impreso y de los órdenes bibliográficos. Por último, se aborda la cuestión del libro antiguo en América Latina y se presentan las trayectorias histórico-bibliográficas y las materialidades de ejemplares del bibliógrafo Conrad Gesner en Brasil. De manera subyacente, la obra pone de manifiesto la imposibilidad de disociar, desde un punto de vista disciplinario, la historia del libro de la bibliografía y, de ambas, de la bibliología, es decir, de la ciencia general del libro.
Nombrar lo nuevo
Eduardo França Paiva ha pasado muchos años estudiando los esclavos y hombres libres africanos en Brasil, y principalmente en Minas Gerais, una región donde la riqueza del subsuelo transformó la demografía de las ciudades y también, en muchos casos, la condición servil de los trabajadores. En este campo, los mestizajes biológicos y, sobre todo, culturales, han solicitado su atención. Este nuevo libro amplía esa temática y propone un léxico analítico de los términos utilizados para nombrar a lo que no tiene aún nombre: los seres híbridos producidos por el mestizaje biológico en el continente americano. La primera originalidad de este trabajo es justamente la de incluir la tota...
Handbook of Latin American Studies
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
