Plínio Salgado

Plínio Salgado
Author: João Fábio Bertonha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2023-10-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000983390

Plínio Salgado covers the life trajectory of the far-right Brazilian political leader between 1895 and 1975. The book initially follows his life from his birth, including political and cultural training and political activities between 1895 and 1930. The focus then shifts to his period as leader of the Brazilian fascist movement between 1932 and 1938, with attention to his performance as a leader, his role within the movement, and in the rise and fall of the Integralist Action. His period of exile in Portugal between 1939 and 1947 is also emphasized, with a special focus on his contacts with the Portuguese radical right and German and Italian agents. The final part addresses his return to Brazil, his efforts to reposition himself politically and his performance as a parliamentarian and supporter of the military coup of 1964. This book will be of interest to researchers of Latin American history, Brazilian history and politics, the transnational far right, and comparative fascism studies.

Radical Women in Latin America

Radical Women in Latin America
Author: Victoria González-Rivera
Publisher: Penn State Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780271042473

The rationale stated for studying radical women of Latin America is first to throw light on the development of dictatorship and authoritarianism, second to transcend the stereotype of inherently violent men and inherently peaceful women, and finally to demonstrate that there is no automatic sisterhood among women even of the same class and ethnicity. Brief chronologies of three countries each in Central and South America open the two sections. The contributors are historians and political scientists primarily from the US. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Las Derechas

Las Derechas
Author: Sandra McGee Deutsch
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780804745994

This is the first book explicitly to compare extreme right-wing organizations, ideas, and actions in different national settings in Latin America. It shows how extreme rightist class and gender composition, motives, programs, and activities varied over time and between countries. It concludes by demonstrating the importance of the analysis for understanding present conditions.

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004500561

Controversies about History, Development and Revolution in Brazil is a critical history of Brazilian economic thought from the perspective of the country’s own historical and political development in the 20th century bringing into question its consequences in the present day.

Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective

Anti-Fascism in a Global Perspective
Author: Kasper Braskén
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-09-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429603215

This book initiates a critical discussion on the varieties of global anti-fascism and explores the cultural, political and practical articulations of anti-fascism around the world. This volume brings together a group of leading scholars on the history of anti-fascism to provide a comprehensive analysis of anti-fascism from a transnational and global perspective and to reveal the abundance and complexity of anti-fascist ideas, movements and practices. Through a number of interlinked case studies, they examine how different forms of global anti-fascisms were embedded in various national and local contexts during the interwar period and investigate the interrelations between local articulations and the global movement. Contributions also explore the actions and impact of African, Asian, Latin American, Caribbean, and Middle Eastern anti-fascist voices that have often been ignored or rendered peripheral in international histories of anti-fascism. Aimed at a postgraduate student audience, this book will be useful for modules on the extreme right, political history, political thought, political ideologies, political parties, social movements, political regimes, global politics, world history and sociology. Chapters 5 and 10 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right

Brazil, Land of the Past: The Ideological Roots of the New Right
Author: Georg Wink
Publisher: Bibliotopía
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2021-12-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 6079934817

Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.

The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America

The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America
Author: Phil Gunson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317271343

First published in 1989, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of South America provides a guide to the most important organizations, figures, events and themes in the contemporary politics of South America. The countries covered are Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Brazil, Suriname and Guyana, as well as the French overseas department of French Guiana. Central American and Caribbean affairs are also touched on when they have implications for South American politics. Taking a broad definition of the term ‘contemporary’, the authors isolate the strands of recent history which have a continual influence on political thinking. Although first published in 1989, this book will be a valuable resource for journalists, students, diplomats, business people, and anyone else who is interested in the politics of this richly diverse continent.