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Author Ioris, Rafael R

Title Transforming Brazil : a History of National Development in the Postwar Era
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
Routledge studies in Latin American politics.
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. State Planning and National Development: Political Devices for Turbulent Times -- 2. Development in a Global Perspective and Brazil's International Search for a New Historical Course -- 3. Targets Plan and the Council of Development: The Technocratic Path to Development Promotion -- 4. Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies versus the Technocrats: Development as State-Led Social Inclusion or as Market-Based Policies -- 5. Economic Prosperity, Consumerism, and the Business World: Development as Market-Led Growth -- 6. National Development and Industrial Labor: Metalworkers, Carestia, and the Basis for a Popular Path of Development
Summary In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions pertaining to the nature of Latin America's political culture and institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of its most intense and successful experiences of fast economic growth, which was paradoxically marred by heightened ideological divisions, political disruptions, and the emergence of widespread authoritarian rule. Combining original sources of political, diplomatic, intellectual, cultural, and labor histories, Ioris provides a comprehensive
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Subject Economic development -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Political culture -- Brazil -- History -- 20th century
Economic development
Economic history
Economic policy
Political culture
Politics and government
SUBJECT Brazil -- Economic policy -- 20th century
Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1945-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016535
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1945-1954. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008389
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 1954-1964. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016591
Subject Brazil
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317680031
1317680030