Vargas and Brazil: New Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model Revisited: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction....Pages 1-29
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....Pages 31-53
Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro....Pages 55-82
“All for São Paulo, All for Brazil”: Vargas, the Paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil....Pages 83-107
The Military and the Dictatorship: Getúlio, Góes, and Dutra....Pages 109-141
Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937–45)....Pages 143-171
Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control....Pages 173-205
Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the chanchada....Pages 207-225
“I Choose This Means to Be With You Always”: Getúlio Vargas’s Carta Testamento....Pages 227-255
Myth and Memory: Getúlio Vargas’s Long Shadow over Brazilian History....Pages 257-282
Back Matter....Pages 283-306