This volume unites scholars from Brazil, the U.S. and Europe, who draw on a close re-reading of the Vargas literature, hitherto unavailable or unused sources, and a wide array of methodologies, to shed new light on the political changes and cultural representations of Vargas's regimes, realising why he meant different things to different people.

Autorentext
JENS HENTSCHKE, obtained his Habilitation (livre-docência) at Heidelberg University, Germany, and is Professor of Latin American History and Politics at the University of Newcastle, U.K. He is the author of Estado Novo (Saarbrücken, 1996), Positivism gaúcho-Style (Berlin, 2004), and many articles and book chapters on 19th and 20th cc. Brazil.

Inhalt
The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas: An Introduction; J. R. Hentschke The Origins of an "Enigma:" Getúlio Vargas between Rio Grande do Sul's Decaying coronelismo and the Genesis of the Interventionist State; G. Axt Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro; D. Williams 'All for São Paulo, All for Brazil:' Vargas, the paulistas, and the Historiography of Twentieth-century Brazil; J. P. Woodard The Military and the Dictatorship: Getúlio, Góes, and Dutra; F. D. McCann Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937-45); J. J. Crocitti Defending Ordem against Progresso: The Brazilian Political Police and Industrial Labor Control; O. Dinius Vargas on Film: From the Newsreels to the chanchadas; L. Shaw "I choose this means to be with you always": Getúlio Vargas's Carta Testamento; T. D. Rogers Myth and Memory: Getúlio Vargas's Long Shadow over Brazilian History; J. Dávila