Admission requirements
Description
This course will analyze the Vargas, JK and Goulart governments, with emphasis on the simultaneous processes of state building and industrialization. It will analyze the formation of political parties in post-war, the so-called populism and class sectors, highlighting the social movements – Peasant Leagues and the confrontation between Brazilian elites linked to international capital, and especially the American one. The 2nd Vargas government in its early democratic stage established the large state enterprises, Petrobrás, Eletrobrás and Siderurgia Nacional. The JK government developed the propjet of “50 Years in Five”, while the Goulart Government failed in its attempt to establish the Agrarian Reform and the Law which proposed to control the outflow of foreign earnings, which cost him the government. The course will also examine how the conservative elites were linked to the military, which lead to the Coup. Understanding why this period was called the democratic framework by Brazilian historians and was also named “Construction Interrompida” by Celso Furtado in one of his major works, with major implications for future. To what extent the authoritarian period in the region was driven by changes in capitalism and the strengthening of U.S. hegemony on a global scale.
Course objectives
The students get enough knowledge over and insight in Brazilian society to be able to function there
This knowledge prepares them for participation in a master’s programme on Brazil or Latin America.
Timetable
Mode of instruction
Lectures and seminars
Assessment method
paper
Blackboard
Blackboard### Reading list
Will be made available during the first class and on blackboard
Registration
Register via uSis.
Registration A la Carte.
Registration Contractonderwijs.
Exchange and Study Abroad students, please see the Study in Leiden website for information on how to apply
Contact information
Ms. Dr. M.L.Wiesebron", tel.nr. 071 527 2063,
Remarks
The course takes place in the months February, March and April.
Students can take this course as part of the minor Brazilian Studies or as an elective course (keuzevak).