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This quantity unites students from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on an in depth re-reading of the Vargas literature, hitherto unavailable or unused assets, and a big selection of methodologies, to shed new gentle at the political adjustments and cultural representations of Vargas's regimes, realising why he intended various things to various humans.
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For Kindleberger’s afterword, see 315–329. 7. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, “Associated-Dependent Development and Democratic Theory,” in Democratizing Brazil: Problems of Transition and Consolidation, ed. Alfred Stepan (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1989), 299–326. 8. Dietmar Rothermund further researched the Great Depression’s effects on the underdeveloped world in The Global Impact of the Great Depression, 1929–1939 (London/New York: Routledge, 1996). 9. Charles Anderson, Politics and Economic Change in Latin America: The Governing of Restless Nations (Princeton: Van Nostrand 1967), 215; Hans-Werner Tobler, “ ‘Depressionsdiktaturen’ in Zentralamerika?
Had the private archives of Vargas and most of his protégés been placed in the National Archive, they would have become part of Brazil’s national heritage more generally. The creation, in 1973, of a relatively well-funded single research institution, the Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil within the Fundação Getúlio Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, to “administer” the public memory of Vargas’s era guaranteed that this legacy has remained a subject of political debate until the present day.
Timothy J. ,” LASA Forum 36, no. 2 (Summer 2005): 8. 64. , A década de 1920 e as origens do Brasil moderno (São Paulo: Fundação Ed. UNESP, 1997). 65. Mario Sabino, “As mortes de Brizola. Caudilhismo, populismo, nacionalismo: as idéias e os conceitos em que acreditava o político foram sepultados antes dele,” Veja, June 30, 2004. 66. ,” Handbuch der Dritten Welt, ed. Dieter Nohlen and Franz Nuscheler, 3rd rev. , 5 vols. (Bonn: Dietz, 1992), 1: 55–75. 67. htm; Shaoguang Wang, “State Effectiveness and Democracy: Asia Cases,” esp.