Chapter 1 The Vargas Era Institutional and Development Model Revisited: Themes, Debates, and Lacunas. An Introduction

Chapter 2 The Origins of an “Enigma”: Getúlio Vargas, Rio Grande do Sul’s Decaying coronelismo , and the Genesis of the Interventionist State before the 1930 Revolution

Chapter 3 Civicscape and Memoryscape: The First Vargas Regime and Rio de Janeiro

Chapter 4 “All for São Paulo, All for Brazil”: Vargas, the Paulistas , and the Historiography of Twentieth-Century Brazil

Chapter 5 The Military and the Dictatorship: Getúlio, Góes, and Dutra

Chapter 6 Vargas Era Social Policies: An Inquiry into Brazilian Malnutrition during the Estado Novo (1937–45)

Chapter 8 Vargas on Film: From the Newsreel to the chanchada

Chapter 9 “I Choose This Means to Be With You Always”: Getúlio Vargas’s Carta Testamento

Chapter 10 Myth and Memory: Getúlio Vargas’s Long Shadow over Brazilian History