U.S. Power and the Social State in Brazil - 9780367643164

Taylor & Francis

U.S. Power and the Social State in BrazilLegal Modernization in the Global South\nAuthor(s): Jlio Cattai\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367643164, 978-0367643164\nSynopsis\nThe book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between [tel] and how [url] Power played a major role in such a process. Besides the global circulation of ideas, the book discusses the Brazilian institutional development in the period. \n\nA profound \""Crisis of Civilization\"" marked the first decades of the century: the references of space and time vanished with the vertiginous expansion of cities and industries, while a myriad of immigrants and former slaves were alleged to be threatening the countrys traditions. Brazilian elites blamed liberalism for such a \""Crisis\"". Based on a decade of research, this book centralizes Brazilian history in liberalism and offers a genealogy of the jurisprudent.