A Place in Politics: São Paulo, Brazil, from Seigneurial Republicanism to Regionalist Revolt - Softcover

Woodard, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822343290 ISBN 13: 9780822343295

Publisher: Duke University Press, 2009

Synopsis

"A Place in Politics" is a thorough reinterpretation of the politics and political culture of the Brazilian state of Sao 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, Sao 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 Sao 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 turn of the twentieth century, when Sao Paulo's leaders enjoyed political pre-eminence within the federal system codified by the Constitution of 1891, through the mass mobilization of 1931-32, in which Sao 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 Sao 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 come into being amid the political conflicts of the preceding decades.

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Review

"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 "A Place in Politics will immediately make James P. Woodard one of the outstanding authorities in current debates on the nature of popular political participation in early-twentieth-century Brazil. It is a deeply researched, masterful analysis of politics in Sao Paulo at that time." --Bryan McCann, author of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil

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""A Place in Politics" will immediately make James P. Woodard one of the outstanding authorities in current debates on the nature of popular political participation in early-twentieth-century Brazil. It is a deeply researched, masterful analysis of politics in Sao Paulo at that time."--Bryan McCann, author of "Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil"

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0822343290
• ISBN 13: 9780822343295
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422