| A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt Contributor(s): Woodard, James P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822343460 ISBN-13: 9780822343462 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $113.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2009 Annotation: ""A Place in Politics "offers a rare revisionist interpretation that makes its case without simply turning conventional wisdom on its head. While James P. Woodard elegantly eviscerates the enduring belief that Republican politics in Sao Paulo 'was the exclusive preserve of the comfortable few, ' he does so not by discovering some alternative (and fanciful) popular political sphere, but by revealing the layers of participation and dynamic engagement in everyday paulista politics. This book is a remarkable accomplishment and a joy to read."--Barbara Weinstein, author of "For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in Sao Paulo, 1920-1964" |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Political Science |
| Dewey: 306.209 |
| LCCN: 2008051090 |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.65 lbs) 424 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Place in Politics is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of S o Paulo between the 1890s and the 1930s. The world's foremost coffee-producing region from the outset of this period and home to more than six million people by 1930, S o Paulo was an economic and demographic giant. In an era marked by political conflict and dramatic social and cultural change in Brazil, nowhere were the conflicts as intense or changes more dramatic than in S o Paulo. The southeastern state was the site of the country's most important political developments, from the contested presidential campaign of 1909-10 to the massive military revolt of 1924. Drawing on a wide array of source materials, James P. Woodard analyzes these events and the republican political culture that informed them. Woodard's fine-grained political history proceeds chronologically from the final years of the nineteenth century, when S o Paulo's leaders enjoyed political preeminence within the federal system codified by the Constitution of 1891, through the mass mobilization of 1931-32, in which S o Paulo's people marched, rioted, and eventually took up arms against the national government in what was to be Brazil's last great regionalist revolt. In taking to the streets in the name of their state, constitutionalism, and the "civilization" that they identified with both, the people of S o Paulo were at once expressing their allegiance to elements of a regionally distinct political culture and converging on a broader, more participatory public sphere that had arisen amid the political conflicts of the preceding decades. |