![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If in fact the doctrines were so similar, it is because they were smoke-screening something else. ![]() But this was long ago and Wallerstein, for the sake of an always updated rationalism, would shout «foul!». The book, besides its journalistic/forensic erudition, is very informative: GetúlioVargas demonstrates in the periphery of a world system (as the marxist Immanuel Wallerstein put it), how communist and fascist ideas were proxy. I doesn't matter that his parents reunited the rival monarchist and republican parties of Rio Grande do Sul where the specifity of a «self-generated Brazil» is completely punctuated by south-american culture (and there it goes away the specifity of Brazil). But it is interesting how the book characterizes a typical Rio Grande man, by the way, descendant of azorean Portuguese, both by mother and father. The trend is one of Boris Fausto, probably the most prestigious contemporary historian of Brazil and, with such degree of detail, it tends to leave Brazil in a kind of self-generated limbo, the teophany of specialists and experts. And many details remain undeciphered because the character was ambivalent. This is the biography (first of three volums) of Getúlio Vargas, the brazilian dictator, between 19. ![]()
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