John W. F. Dulles

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The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)

University of Texas Press

The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.

  • Copyright year: 1986
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Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935

University of Texas Press

In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians.

  • Copyright year: 1973
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Unrest in Brazil

Political-Military Crises 1955-1964

University of Texas Press

Unrest in Brazil describes in exciting detail the government crises and resulting military interventions that punctuated the power struggle between supporters and opponents of Vargas in the decade following his death.

  • Copyright year: 1970
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Vargas of Brazil

A Political Biography

University of Texas Press

A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil"

Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)

University of Texas Press

In addition to the many details that this volume adds to Brazilian history, it illuminates the character of a man who sacrificed professional advancement and emolument in the interest of fighting for justice and charity.

  • Copyright year: 2002
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Resisting Brazil's Military Regime

An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto

University of Texas Press

The second and final volume of the definitive biography of one of Brazil’s greatest reformers.

  • Copyright year: 2007
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Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader

Volume II: The Years 1960-1977

University of Texas Press

In the second and final volume, Dulles explores the political and private life of Lacerda from 1960, when he became governor of Brazil's Guanabara state, until his death in 1977.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945

Repression during World Upheaval

University of Texas Press

Brazilian Communism, 1935–1945 is an objective and remarkably comprehensive account of the Brazilian Communist Party’s struggle to survive repression under the regime of Vargas.

  • Copyright year: 1983
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Yesterday in Mexico

A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936

University of Texas Press

The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.

  • Copyright year: 1961
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Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader

Volume I: The Years 1914-1960

University of Texas Press

The first of a two-volume biography of this major Brazilian politician.

  • Copyright year: 1991
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