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Online-Ressource (594 p)
ISBN:
9780195063165
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The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of Joao Goulart in 1964, to the return of democratic civilian government in 1985 with the presidency of Jose Sarney. A sequel to Skidmore's highly acclaimed Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964, this volume explores the
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""COVER PAGE""; ""TITLE PAGE""; ""COPYRIGHT PAGE""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""I: THE ORIGINS OF THE 1964 REVOLUTION""; ""II: CASTELO BRANCO: CLEANING HOUSE-APRIL 1964-MARCH 1965""; ""The Military Take Control""; ""The New Government: A UDN-Military Alliance""; ""The Purges and the Torture""; ""Supporters and Critics""; ""Economic Stabilization: A Quasi-Orthodox Approach""; ""Wage Policy""; ""Convincing the Foreign Lenders and Investors""; ""The UDN: A Viable Political Base?""; ""Defeat at the Polls and the Hard-Line Reaction""
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""III: CASTELO BRANCO: THE ATTEMPT TO INSTITUTIONALIZE""""The Second Institutional Act and Its Political Aftermath""; ""Sources of Opposition""; ""Dealing with the Succession""; ""The UDN and Lacerda Again""; ""The Economic Scene in 1966""; ""National Security and a New Legal Structure""; ""The Economic Record of the Castelo Branco Years""; ""Strengthening the Market Economy""; ""Castelo Branco's Political Legacy""; ""IV: COSTA E SILVA: THE MILITARY TIGHTEN THEIR GRIP""; ""A New Cast""; ""The New Economic Strategy""; ""Politics: Back to "Normal"?""
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""From the Broad Front to a Challenge by Students and Workers""""Arousing the Hardliners""; ""The Authoritarian Crackdown""; ""The Guerrilla Emerges""; ""The Economy: Pragmatism Pays Off""; ""A Paralyzed President and a Succession Crisis""; ""The U.S.: A Missing Ambassador and Some Second Thoughts""; ""V: MÉDICI: THE AUTHORITARIAN FACE""; ""The Personality, Cabinet, and Governing Style of Médici""; ""PR in a New Vein""; ""Médici and Electoral Politics, 1969-72""; ""The Liquidation of the Guerrilla Threat""; ""The Uses of Repression""; ""The Church: An Opposition Force""
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""The Economic Boom and Its Critics""""Opening the Amazon: Solution for the Northeast?""; ""Continued Electoral Manipulation and the Choice of Geisel""; ""Human Rights and Brazil-U.S. Relations""; ""Taking Stock: What Kind of Regime?""; ""VI: GEISEL: TOWARD ABERTURA""; ""The Return of the Castelistas""; ""Liberalization from Within?""; ""November 1974: An MDB Victory""; """Decompression" Under Fire""; ""New Economic Problems""; ""Voices from Civil Society""; ""Planalto Problem: How to Win Elections""; ""Government Response: The "April Package"""
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""A U.S.-Brazil Rift: Nuclear Technology and Human Rights""""Geisel Subdues the Hard Line""; ""The "New Unionism" in Action""; ""The Economic Record Since 1974 and Geisel's Legacy""; ""VII: FIGUEIREDO: THE TWILIGHT OF MILITARY GOVERNMENT""; ""Complexion of the New Government""; ""The 1979 Strikes""; ""Delfim Neto Again""; ""The Amnesty Issue""; ""Reformulating the Parties""; ""Another Challenge from Labor""; ""Explosion on the Right""; ""The Balance of Payments: A New Vulnerability""; ""The 1982 Elections""; ""The Economy in Deep Recession""; ""The Campaign for Direct Presidential Elections""
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""PDS Presidential Aspirants""
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195362626
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780195063165
Additional Edition:
Print version Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985
Language:
English
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