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Brazil 1870–1914 – The Force of Tradition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

José Murilo De Carvalho
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Although in the literature there is almost a consensus that there was an advance of modernity in Brazil after 1870, tradition was sufficiently strong to maintain the values of a rural, patriarchal and hierarchical society. This modernity assumed characteristics that distinguished it from the classic model, represented by the Anglo-Saxon experience. In the period between 1870 and 1914 the ground was cleared for the conservative modernisation of the 1930s.

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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 24 , Supplement S1 , March 1992 , pp. 145 - 162
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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