Embracing the Past, Designing the Future - Authoritarianism and Economic Development in Brazil Under Getulio Vargas (Hardcover)

Embracing the Past, Designing the Future provides an historical overview of Brazilian authoritarianism and social/economic development during the political era (193045) of Getulio Vargas as viewed and understood by Oliveira Viana and Azevedo Amaral, two of the principal intellectuals and ideologues of the regime at the time. Oliveira Vianna was one of the main authors of the corporatist labour legislation and Azevedo Amaral remained an important publicist who was associated with the regimes propaganda apparatus. the heart of the discussion is the legitimacy of authoritarian modernisation. Brazils contemporary uncertainty has deep parallels with the earlier period: unruly and un-democratic political debate coupled with economic stagnation. It was during the Vargas era that the power bases and fundamental principals of the construction of modern Brazil were defined in terms of its political administration and its economy and industry. These features may still be perceived in the country today, albeit claimed or rejected by political leaders such as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Linkage between authoritarianism and the economic development of Brazil is strong, whether viewed through the lenses of history, sociology or political science. Both periods of exceptional national economic and social growth were associated exactly to its two governmental authoritarian periods in the twentieth century the Vargas era and the military dictatorship (196485). This volume addresses a complex of ideological difficulties that go to the heart of what the Brazilian nation stands for: its racial construction; its colonial heritage; the fractured nature of the relationship between society and state; the role of corporatism, and its sometime political rejection; and the dangers of political personalisation, to the detriment of the nation.

General

Imprint:	Sussex Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Portuguese-Speaking World
Release date:	2020
Authors:	Luciano Aronne De Abreu • Luis Carlos dos Passos Martins • Geandra Denardi Munareto
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-84519-964-7
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > History > European history > General
LSN:	1-84519-964-2
Barcode:	9781845199647

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