Resisting Brazil's Military Regime : : An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto / / John W. F. Dulles.

Praised by his many admirers as a "courageous and fearless" defender of human rights, Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto (1893-1991) was the most consistently forceful opponent of the regime of Brazilian dictator Getúlio Vargas. John W. F. Dulles chronicled Sobral's battles with the Varg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Prologue (1946–1964)
  • Part II . Defending Men Punished by the New Regime (1964–1965)
  • Part III . A Second Institutional Act Crushes Democracy (October 1965)
  • Part IV . The Last Months of 1965
  • Part V. From Ato Three (1966) to Ato Five (1968)
  • Part VI . The Repression Reaches Its Pinnacle (1969–1971)
  • Part VII . The Repression Continues (1972–1977)
  • Part VIII . Abertura (1978–1985)
  • Part IX . Epilogue (1985–1991)
  • Notes
  • Index