Politics and Parentela in Paraiba

Politics and Parentela in Paraiba
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 525
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ISBN-10 : 9781400858286
ISBN-13 : 1400858283
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Book Synopsis Politics and Parentela in Paraiba by : Linda Lewin

Download or read book Politics and Parentela in Paraiba written by Linda Lewin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly documented work focuses on the parentela (extended family), including Epitacio's, to illustrate the role bonds of blood, marriage, and friendship played in formal politics at local, state, and national levels throughout the Old Republic (1889-1930). Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Politics and Parentela in Paraíba

Politics and Parentela in Paraíba
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Total Pages : 486
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105013697953
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Book Synopsis Politics and Parentela in Paraíba by : Linda Lewin

Download or read book Politics and Parentela in Paraíba written by Linda Lewin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Politics and Parentela in Paraiba

Politics and Parentela in Paraiba
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Total Pages : 524
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ISBN-10 : 0783793758
ISBN-13 : 9780783793757
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Book Synopsis Politics and Parentela in Paraiba by : Linda Lewin

Download or read book Politics and Parentela in Paraiba written by Linda Lewin and published by . This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence

Power, Patronage, and Political Violence
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 270
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ISBN-10 : 0803212976
ISBN-13 : 9780803212978
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Book Synopsis Power, Patronage, and Political Violence by : Judy Bieber

Download or read book Power, Patronage, and Political Violence written by Judy Bieber and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judy Bieber explores the relationship between state centralization and municipal politics in Minas Gerais, Brazil, during the Imperial Period, 1822?89. She charts the nineteenth-century origins of coronelismo, a form of machine politics that linked rural power and patronage at the municipal level to state and federal politics. ø By highlighting the structural role of the municipality within the political system, Bieber provides a key to explaining Brazil?s so-called exceptionalism?its ability to maintain territorial and political cohesion within the framework of a constitutional monarchy instead of fragmenting violently, as did many Spanish republics. ø Despite the maintenance of national unity, political violence characterized much of Brazil?s political history, especially in the municipalities of its frontier regions. Historians have often attributed the chaotic nature of these politics to geographical isolation and decentralization of power. Bieber challenges these assumptions, arguing instead that state centralization was the primary factor contributing to political violence in Brazil?s frontier regions. ø The Brazilian national government centralized appointments of municipal authorities, thereby linking partisan affiliation on the periphery with provincial and national political parties. Local appointees corrupted and abused the mechanisms of social control in order to attain electoral victories for political patrons who had rewarded them with official jobs. This system produced escalating violence and promoted judicial impunity at the municipal level while simultaneously creating political stability at the provincial and federal levels. ø National discourse attributed political violence to a natural tendency possessed by rural elites in the uncivilized backlands. Municipal actors, however, belied prevailing stereotypes of ideological passivity and intellectual backwardness. In the press and in private correspondence they actively sought to define the terms of their political participation, developing their own conceptions of liberalism and ethical norms of political patronage.

The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930

The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781477305201
ISBN-13 : 1477305203
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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930 by : Steven Topik

Download or read book The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930 written by Steven Topik and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first overview of the Brazilian republican state based on extensive primary source material, Steven Topik demonstrates that well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929, the Brazilian state was one of the most interventionist in Latin America. This study counters the previous general belief that before 1930 Brazil was dominated by an export oligarchy comprised of European and North American capitalists and that only later did the state become prominent in the country’s economic development. Topik examines the state’s performance during the First Republic (1889–1930) in four sectors—finance, the coffee trade, railroads, and industry. By looking at the controversies in these areas, he explains how domestic interclass and international struggles shaped policy and notes the degree to which the state acted relatively independently of civil society. Topik’s primary concern is the actions of state officials and whether their decisions reflected the demands of the ruling class. He shows that conflicting interests of fractions of the ruling class and foreign investors gradually led to far greater state participation than any of the participants originally desired, and that the structure of the economy and of society—not the intentions of the actors—best explains the state’s economic presence.

Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil

Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780804723367
ISBN-13 : 0804723362
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Book Synopsis Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by : Richard Graham

Download or read book Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil written by Richard Graham and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.

Liberals, Politics, and Power

Liberals, Politics, and Power
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Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0820318000
ISBN-13 : 9780820318004
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Book Synopsis Liberals, Politics, and Power by : Vincent C. Peloso

Download or read book Liberals, Politics, and Power written by Vincent C. Peloso and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking at the Latin American liberal project during the century of postindependence, this collection of original essays draws attention to an underappreciated dilemma confronting liberals: idealistic visions and fiscal restraints. Liberals, Politics, and Power focuses on the inventiveness of nineteenth-century Latin Americans who applied liberal ideology to the founding and maintenance of new states. The impact of liberalism in Latin America, the contributors show, is best understood against the larger backdrop of struggles that pitted regional demands against the pressures of foreign finance, a powerful church against a decentralized state, and aristocratic desire to retain privilege against rising demands for social mobility. Moving beyond the traditional historiographical division between Eurocentric and dependency theories, the essays attempt to account for a uniquely Latin American liberal ideology and politics by exploring the political dynamics of such countries as Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, and Peru. Contributors discuss liberal efforts to build a viable legal order through elections and to implement a means of public finance that could fund the states' operations. Essays that span the entire century address issues such as the emergence of caudillos, the role of artisans, and popular participation in elections in light of fiscal, and other, impediments to progress. In their introduction, Vincent C. Peloso and Barbara A. Tenenbaum provide a hemispheric overview of liberalism that illustrates its similarities across Latin America. By exploring the liberal constitutional and economic order lying beneath apparently dictatorial states, this pathbreaking volume underlines the importance of fiscal policy in the fashioning of state power. Liberals, Politics, and Power serves not only as a guide to the liberal principles and practices that governed state formation in nineteenth-century Latin America but also as a means to evaluate the complex relationship between ideas and practical politics.