Brazil: South (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina & Paraná)

(see also Brazil, Brazil: Vargas, Brazil: Military Regime, Brazil since 1985, Brazil: Lula & PT)

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On the Web: Specialized Sites

Bak, Joan L. "Political centralization & the building of the interventionist state in Brazil: Corporatism, regionalism & interest group politics in Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1937," Luso-Brazilian Review (1985).

__________. "Labor, community, & the making of a cross-class alliance in Brazil: the 1917 railroad strikes in Rio Grande do Sul," Hispanic American Historical Review 78,2 (5/98):179-228.

Ferguson, Bruce W. "From protest to programs: neighborhood associations in a Brazilian muncipality," Grassroots Development 16,1 (1992):12-21.

Kerr, John Austin Jr. "Colonization in Paraná: lessons from the South," Luso-Brazilian Review 14,1 (1977):76-79.

Nicholls, William H. "The agricultural frontier in modern Brazilian history: the state of Paraná, 1920-1965," in Rippy (ed.) Cultural Change in Brazil (Muncie IN, n.d.), pp. 36-64.

Rabinovitch, Jonas. "Community restoring earth," Pax Christi USA 17,4 (win 92) & chap. in Meyer & Moosang (eds.) Living with the Land: Communities Restoring the Earth (Philadelphia: New Society, 1992). Eco-politcs of Curitiba, 70s-90s.

Willems, Emilio. "Caboclo cultures of southern Brazil," Proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists 29,2 (1952):231-44.

__________. "The rise of a rural middle class in a frontier society," in R. Roett (ed.) Brazil in the Sixties (Nashville: Vanderbilt, 1972), pp. 325-44.

In the Library: Non-Fiction Books

Azevedo, Thales de. Gaúchos: a fisionomia social do Rio Grande do Sul (Salvador da Bahia, 1958).

Cortés, Carlos E. Gaúcho Politics in Brazil: The Politics of Rio Grande do Sul, 1930-1964 (Albuquerque: U. of New Mexico, 1974).

Laytano, Dante de. A estáncia gaúcha (Rio: Ministerio de Agricultura, 1952). History, geography, technology, economy & society of cattle-rearing in RGS.

Lesser, Jeff. Jewish Colonization in Rio Grande do Sul, 1904-1925 (São Paulo, 1991).

Love, Joseph L. Rio Grande do Sul & Brazilian Regionalism, 1882-1930 (Stanford, 1971).

Margolis, Maxine L. The Moving Frontier: Social & Economic Change in a Southern Brazilian Community (Gainesville: U. of Florida, 1973).

Silva, Zedar Perfeito da. O vale do Itajaí (Rio de Janeiro: Ministerio de Agricultura, 1954). Santa Catarina.

Velho, Otávio Guillherme. Capitalismo autoritário e campesinato (um estudo comparativo a partir da fronteira em movimento) (São Paulo, 1976).

Willems, Emílio. Buzios Island: A Caiçara Community in Southern Brazil (Seattle, 1951).

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"Heritage from the Mountain (Herança da serra)" [2005], dir. Luiz Menegaz, ?m. Santa Catarina.