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Escrita de si, escrita da história
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 388

Escrita de si, escrita da história

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: FGV Editora

Chama a atenção para certo tipo de leitura, cada vez mais freqüentente, como cartas, diários íntimos e memórias, entre outros, e das ricas oportunidades que eles podem oferecer à reflexão, no trabalho dos historiadores.

A Poverty of Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

A Poverty of Rights

A Poverty of Rights examines the history of poor people's citizenship in Rio from the 1920s through the 1960s, the 20th-century period that most critically shaped urban development, social inequality, and the meaning of law and rights in modern Brazil.

Becoming Brazilian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 347

Becoming Brazilian

This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.

End Of The Peasantry
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 255

End Of The Peasantry

The rural labor movement played a surprisingly active role in Brazil's transition to democracy in the 1980s. While in most Latin American countries rural labor was conspicuously marginal, in Brazil, an expanded, secularized, and centralized movement organized strikes, staged demonstrations for land reform, demanded political liberalization, and criticized the government’s environmental policies. In this ground-breaking book, Anthony W. Pereira explains this transition as the result of two intertwined processes - the modernization of agricultural production and the expansion of the welfare state into the countryside - and explores the political consequences of these processes, occurring not only in Latin America but in much of the Third World.

Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Social Exclusion and Mobility in Brazil

Brazil is a country of sharp disparities. The gap between the richest and the poorest citizens is one of the largest in the world. Inequality in Brazil is well-known, but its low mobility is not. Until now, few studies have sought to investigate how forms of social exclusion constrain socioeconomic mobility. Why do particular groups remain excluded and trapped in poverty for generations? What do Brazilians themselves think about income inequality and social mobility? This study explores these issues, provides a set of options to redress them, and promotes a national dialogue for action. In addi.

Seed Was Planted
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 442

Seed Was Planted

"Argues that rural land and labor activism extend back to 1920s, at least in Säao Paulo state. Details interaction of rural workers with Vargas state, the Partido Comunista Brasileiro, Catholic Church, and other actors, and workers' responses to repression after 1964. Important antidote to generally ahistorical analyses of contemporary Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Soldiers of the Pátria
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 636

Soldiers of the Pátria

This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the army’s overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazil’s first civilian dictatorship in 1937. The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazil—a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state. The book is based on detailed research in Brazilian, British, American, and French archives, and on numerous interviews with surviving military and civilian leaders. It also makes extensive use of hitherto unused internal army documents, as well as of private correspondence and diaries. It is thus able to shed new light on the army’s personnel and ethos, on its ties with civilian elites, on the consequences of military professionalization, and on how the army reinvented itself after the collapse of its command structure in the crisis of 1930—a reinvention that allowed the army to become the backbone of the post-1937 dictatorship of Getulio Vargas.

Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Literary Censorship in Francisco Franco's Spain and Getulio Vargas' Brazil, 1936-1945

This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of people without...

Routes Into the Abyss
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 230

Routes Into the Abyss

Examining the 1930s and the different reactions to the crisis, this volume offers a global comparative perspective that includes a comparison across time to give insight into the contemporary global recession. Germany, Italy, Austria and Spain with their antidemocratic, authoritarian or fascistic answers to the economic crisis are compared not only to an opposite European perspective – the Swedish example – but also to other global perspectives and their political consequences in Japan, China, India, Turkey, Brazil and the United States. The book offers no recipe for economic, social or political action in today’s recession, but it shows a wide range of reactions in the past, some of which led to catastrophe.

Death, Dismemberment, and Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Death, Dismemberment, and Memory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2004
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  • Publisher: UNM Press

The long history of the politically symbolic use of the bodies, or body parts, of martyred heroes in Latin America.