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The book analyzes the elite-led efforts to transform the Brazilian legal order in the period between 1930â1975 and how U.S. 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.A profound âCrisis of Civilizationâ 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 countryâs traditions. Brazilian elites blamed liberalism for such a âCrisis.â Based on a decade of research, this book centralizes Brazilian history in liberalism and offers a genealogy of the jurisprudential and institutional struggles to correct the culture of laissez-faire. Using archival sources, it shows the direct U.S. influence on Brazilian thought and development. Recasting the history of legal ideas in the 20th century and providing novel interpretations on major political processes, it offers a rigorous and fresh look at the development of liberalism in the country.Covering five decades of history and offering a transnational app

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Author

Júlio Cattai

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2022

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction