Rulers and Owners: A Brazilian Case Study in Comparative Perspective
1986; Duke University Press; Volume: 66; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1215/00182168-66.4.743
ISSN1527-1900
AutoresJoseph L. Love, B. J. Barickman,
Tópico(s)Brazilian History and Foreign Policy
ResumoLITE studies, even in an age of little people's history, require no apology to the degree that they reveal patterns of social stratification and the dynamics of power, both economic and political. The elite examined here is the political leadership of Sdo Paulo state between the coup d'etat establishing the Brazilian Republic and that of the centralizing Estado Novo (1889-1937). This study reveals the close correspondence between political and economic leadership, present to a lesser degree in analogously defined elites of Minas Gerais and Pernambuco, but apparently lacking in other periods of Brazilian history and in elites of other countries. It also asks lshy such a correspondence exists, and looks at the character of the dominant social class, as well as the question of hegemony, in the light of recent modes-ofproduction debates about Sdo Paulo and other regions of Latin America.' For the years under study, Brazil had 2o states, but Sio Paulo played a crucial role in framing the terms of Brazilian politics. The Republican party of Sdo Paulo (Partido Republicano Paulista) was the largest and best organized at the fall of the empire (1889), and a Paulista presided over the
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