Vargas and Brazil

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model Revisited: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction

   • Jens R. Hentschke

   Pages 1-29

3. The Origins of an “Enigma”: Getúlio Vargas, Rio Grande do Sul’s Decaying coronelismo, and the Genesis of the Interventionist State before the 1930 Revolution

   • Gunter Axt

   Pages 31-53

4. Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro

   • Daryle Williams

   Pages 55-82

5. “All for São Paulo, All for Brazil”: Vargas, the Paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil

   • James P. Woodard

   Pages 83-107

6. The Military and the Dictatorship: Getúlio, Góes, and Dutra

   • Frank D. McCann

   Pages 109-141

7. Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937–45)

   • John J. Crocitti

   Pages 143-171

8. Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control

   • Oliver Dinius

   Pages 173-205

9. Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the chanchada

   • Lisa Shaw

   Pages 207-225

10. “I Choose This Means to Be With You Always”: Getúlio Vargas’s Carta Testamento

    • Thomas D. Rogers

    Pages 227-255

11. Myth and Memory: Getúlio Vargas’s Long Shadow over Brazilian History

    • Jerry Dávila

    Pages 257-282

12. Back Matter

    Pages 283-306

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This volume unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the Vargas 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, realising why he meant different things to different people.

• dictatorship
• Institution
• intervention
• police
• latin american politics

"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 freshcontributions and insights from anew generation of scholars, is an excellent 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 excellent and comprehensive volume."

- Thomas E. Skidmore, Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University

"This is an innovative collection of essays that examines 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

• Newcastle University, UK

  Jens R. Hentschke

JENS HENTSCHKE, obtained his Habilitation (livre-docência) at Heidelberg University, Germany, and is Professor of Latin American History and Politics at the University of Newcastle, U.K. He is the author of Estado Novo (Saarbrücken, 1996), Positivism gaúcho-Style (Berlin, 2004), and many articles and book chapters on 19th and 20th cc. Brazil.

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