Thomas E Skidmore
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas E Skidmore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas E |
| FAMILY NAME | Skidmore |
| SIGNATURE | SKIDMORE T E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths
In 1933, Gilberto Freyre published his classic Casagrande y senzala. Although it was ostensibly about the uniquely Portuguese origins of Brazilian civilization, it included innumerable obiter dicta about the difference between the role of race in Portuguese and English America. Freyre argued that the relatively harmonious Brazilian race relations were due to more or less smooth Afro-European miscegenation, which contrasted so sharply with the rig…
Politics in Brazil, 1930 - 1964: An Experiment in Democracy
A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getúlio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule — the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship — and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulence, culminating in the explosive coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional government of President João Goulart and profoundly changed the nature of Brazils' political institutions. The first book by …
Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900. Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. Carlos A. Forment, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2003
In this densely written monograph the author claims to have established a revisionist interpretation of Latin America’s 19thcentury. He rejects strongly the “conventional” view that by 1900 Latin America was suffering from a “colonial legacy” that prevented a smooth transition to democracy in the new century. Although Latin America is used in the title, in fact the focus is only on Spanish America. Brazil does not merit a mention
Brasil e Argentina: Um ensaio de história comparada: 1850 - 2002
Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
Kenneth Maxwell
Policy Issues Brazil's Persistent Income Inequality: Lessons from History
Official data for the last three decades show that Brazil has one of the world's most unequal distributions of income. This article examines the relevant data and then explains the causes of this persistent inequality, considering them also in cultural and historical context. It discusses the politics of continuing inequality and possible strategies for reducing it
Brazil's Persistent Income Inequality: Lessons from History
Official data for the last three decades show that Brazil has one of the world's most unequal distributions of income. This article examines the relevant data and then explains the causes of this persistent inequality, considering them also in cultural and historical context. It discusses the politics of continuing inequality and possible strategies for reducing it
Ein Institut und sein General: Wilhelm Faupel und das Ibero-Amerikanische Institut in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Wilhelmine Germany (1871–1918) was noted for its creation of a network of excellent research institutes, including some for the study of overseas cultures and nations. This development resulted from several factors: the rapid rise and increasing sophistication of the German economy, the expansion of Germany’s role in world trade, the creation of first-class universities, and Germany’s well-established expertise in philology and foreign languages.…
"Sobral Pinto, "The Conscience of Brazil: Leading the Attack against Vargas (1930-1945)
Non-Brazilianists can be forgiven for not recognizing the name of Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto. This celebrated civil-liberties lawyer and prominent Catholic intellectual played a noteworthy, albeit minor, role in Brazilian political history. He was one of the most consistent and effective voices to speak out against Brazil’s two twentieth-century dictatorships: the Estado Novo of 1937– 45 and the military government of 1964–85. This work is t…
Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil: A Case of Mutual Influence
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and the Nation in Brazil, 1864- 1945
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and …
Raízes de Gilberto Freyre
The centenary in 2000 of Gilbert Freyre's birth occasioned a number of retrospectives on his place in Brazil's history. This article focuses on Freyre up to 1933, the year in which Casa Grande & Senzala was published. Emphasis is given to such formative influences as his undergraduate study at Baylor University, his graduate study at Columbia University and his subsequent travels in Europe. In these years Freyre rejected an invitation to stay in …
Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil. Seth Garfield
História da Vida Privada no Brasil. Volume 2História da Vida Privada no Brasil. Volume 3História da Vida Privada no Brasil. Volume 4
The inspiration for these volumes comes from France. The model is the highly successful Histoire de la Vie Privée, edited by Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby. The French scholars wanted to penetrate the crust of traditional politico-institutional history to illuminate the histories of individual lives. They hoped this approach would bring us closer to the nittygritty of everyday life in the past.Not surprisingly, these four volumes from Brazil ref…
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
"Indispensable introductory survey of Brazilian history, 1500-1998. Pre-1930 history is treated as background. Second half is an outstanding narrative of politics and economic policy from 1930-present. Accessible to students and general readers. Particularly interesting are the book's final chapters, which seem to be addressed more to the conscience of the Brazilian ruling class than to foreign readers. Includes bibliographical essay, but one muc…
Studying the History of Latin America: A Case of Hemispheric Convergence
The belief survives among us [Latin Americans] that United States scholars would write better histories of Latin America if they studied less and invented more. Daniel Cosío Villegas History and the Social Sciences in Latin America This article will analyze the way in which U.S. historians' writing on Latin America, especially on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has been influenced by the changing relationship between the United States and…
Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire
Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture. Barbara Tenenbaum, editor-in-chief. (New York: (Simon & Schuster, 1996. 5 vols. Illustrations. Appendices. Index. No Price.)
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Where was the Brazilian Malinche? Myths of national origin in Brazil and Mexico
Are All Politics Domestic? Perspectives on the Integration of Comparative Politics and International Relations Theories
Macroeconomic Crises, Policies, and Growth in Brazil, 1964-1990
This study examines Brazil's economic history from the change in regime in 1964, when a populist and constitutional but economically incompetent government was overthrown by the military, to 1992, when Brazil's first popularly elected president in more than a quarter of a century was forced from office for corruption. Brazil's economic prospects for some time to come will be a legacy of this period, which witnessed not only unprecedented growth, …
Television, Politics, and the Transition to Democracy in Latin America
Religion and Slave Rebellion in BahiaSlave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia.Joao Jose Reis , Arthur Brakel
Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought
Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field. Black into White is a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and propounded about race relations between 1870 and 1…
Toward a Comparative Analysis of Race Relations Since Abolition in Brazil and the United States
Essays in comparative history are risky ventures. Nowhere has this become more evident than in the literature on slavery. Yet comparisons continue to be made, implicitly if not explicitly. Post-abolition race relations is an area in which comparisons are equally tempting-indeed, virtually unavoidable- and equally difficult to handle. Perhaps by more careful attention to the framework of comparison we can begin to arrive at more testable hypothese…
Politics in Brazil, 1930 - 1964: An Experiment in Democracy
A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getúlio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule — the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship — and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulence, culminating in the explosive coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional government of President João Goulart and profoundly changed the nature of Brazils' political institutions. The first book by …
Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964. An Experiment in Democracy
A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getulio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule - the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship - and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulenece, culminating in the explosive coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional government of President Joao Goulart and profoundly changes the nature of Brazils' political institutions. The first book by…
The politics of military rule in Brazil, 1964-85
The Tribute of Blood: Army, Honor, Race, and the Nation in Brazil, 1864- 1945
In The Tribute of Blood Peter M. Beattie analyzes the transformation of army recruitment and service in Brazil between 1864 and 1945, using this history of common soldiers to examine nation building and the social history of Latin America’s largest nation. Tracing the army’s reliance on coercive recruitment to fill its lower ranks, Beattie shows how enlisted service became associated with criminality, perversion, and dishonor, as nineteenth- and …
Brazil: Five Centuries of Change
"Indispensable introductory survey of Brazilian history, 1500-1998. Pre-1930 history is treated as background. Second half is an outstanding narrative of politics and economic policy from 1930-present. Accessible to students and general readers. Particularly interesting are the book's final chapters, which seem to be addressed more to the conscience of the Brazilian ruling class than to foreign readers. Includes bibliographical essay, but one muc…
Raízes de Gilberto Freyre
The centenary in 2000 of Gilbert Freyre's birth occasioned a number of retrospectives on his place in Brazil's history. This article focuses on Freyre up to 1933, the year in which Casa Grande & Senzala was published. Emphasis is given to such formative influences as his undergraduate study at Baylor University, his graduate study at Columbia University and his subsequent travels in Europe. In these years Freyre rejected an invitation to stay in …
Are All Politics Domestic? Perspectives on the Integration of Comparative Politics and International Relations Theories
The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-1985
Lévi-Strauss, Braudel and Brazil: A Case of Mutual Influence
Brazil's Persistent Income Inequality: Lessons from History
Official data for the last three decades show that Brazil has one of the world's most unequal distributions of income. This article examines the relevant data and then explains the causes of this persistent inequality, considering them also in cultural and historical context. It discusses the politics of continuing inequality and possible strategies for reducing it
The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964: Part I
P ART I of this article, published in the previous issue, discussed the ideologies and assumptions which have shaped history writing on the years between the founding of the Republic in 1889 and the coup of 1964. The remainder of Part I was devoted to political history. Part II, which follows, begins with a brief discussion of the study of state and local politics. Longer sections are then devoted to economic history and foreign relations
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Latin America and the Caribbean
Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarchy to Republic
Notes on Quantitative History: Federal Expenditure and Social Change in Mexico Since 1910
James Wilkie's The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910 is an industrious attempt to get beneath the conventional wisdom about the changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution. The author's careful compilation of budgetary data should sharply challenge the longstanding and widespread assumptions that: (a) useful historical material from Latin America does not exist in statistical form, and (b) even if it did exist, th…
A Documentary History of Brazil
Gilberto Freyre and the Early Brazilian Republic: Some Notes on Methodology
Throughout his career Gilberto Freyre has refused to be classified as a fullfledged member of any academic craft union. He has preferred the title “writer” or “essayist” rather than “historian” or “sociologist”. Such courage is refreshing in an era when the labels of scholarly expertise, however baroque in their refinements, have come to be taken more and more seriously. Disdainfully rejecting the cult of specialization, Freyre has set out to “se…
Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961-1969
Journal Article Requiem for Revolution: The United States and Brazil, 1961–1969. By Ruth Leacock. (Kent: Kent State University Press, 1990. xiv + 317 pp. Cloth, $30.00; paper, $18.50.) Get access Thomas E. Skidmore Thomas E. Skidmore Brown University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1429–1430, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078397 Published: 01 Ma…
Gilberto Freyre and the Early Brazilian Republic: Some Notes on Methodology
Throughout his career Gilberto Freyre has refused to be classified as a fullfledged member of any academic craft union. He has preferred the title “writer” or “essayist” rather than “historian” or “sociologist”. Such courage is refreshing in an era when the labels of scholarly expertise, however baroque in their refinements, have come to be taken more and more seriously. Disdainfully rejecting the cult of specialization, Freyre has set out to “se…
A Documentary History of Brazil
Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964. An Experiment in Democracy
A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getulio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule - the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship - and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulenece, culminating in the explosive coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional government of President Joao Goulart and profoundly changes the nature of Brazils' political institutions. The first book by…
Politics in Brazil 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy
Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964. An Experiment in Democracy
A thorough study of Brazilian politics from 1930 to 1964, this book begins with Getulio Vargas' fifteen-year-rule - the latter part of which was a virtual dictatorship - and traces the following years of economic difficulty and political turbulenece, culminating in the explosive coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional government of President Joao Goulart and profoundly changes the nature of Brazils' political institutions. The first book by…
Political Trends in Brazil
Failure in Brazil: From Popular Front to Armed Revolt
Latin America has been one of the less successful arenas for the international communist movement. Until Castro's victory, Iberian America repeatedly proved the graveyard of communist hopes. The explanations given for this failure have been various: inability of Moscow to understand the regional differences in Latin America, Russian unwillingness to risk defeat at the hands of American intervention (as in Guatemala in I954), and a stubborn and un…
Notes on Quantitative History: Federal Expenditure and Social Change in Mexico Since 1910
James Wilkie's The Mexican Revolution: Federal Expenditure and Social Change Since 1910 is an industrious attempt to get beneath the conventional wisdom about the changes wrought by the Mexican Revolution. The author's careful compilation of budgetary data should sharply challenge the longstanding and widespread assumptions that: (a) useful historical material from Latin America does not exist in statistical form, and (b) even if it did exist, th…
Visão do paraíso. Os motivos edênicos no descobrimento e colonização do Brasil
Order and Progress: Brazil from Monarchy to Republic
The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade: Britain, Brazil, and the Slave Trade Question, 1807-1969
Unrest in Brazil. Political-Military Crises 1955-1964
Introduction * Book I: The Election of 1955 * Book II: The Coups of November 1955 * Book III: Expressions of Discontent, 1956-1959 * Book IV: Janio * Book V: Goulart and the Parliamentary Regime * Book VI: Goulart and the Presidential Regime * Book VII: March 1964 * Book VIII: The Military Movement of 1964 * Epilogue * Appendix: Notes about the Electorate, the Legal Political Parties, and the Communist Party of Brazil * Sources of Material * Glos…
Economic Development of Latin America. A Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution
Economic Development of Latin America. A Survey from Colonial Times to the Cuban Revolution
Toward a Comparative Analysis of Race Relations Since Abolition in Brazil and the United States
Essays in comparative history are risky ventures. Nowhere has this become more evident than in the literature on slavery. Yet comparisons continue to be made, implicitly if not explicitly. Post-abolition race relations is an area in which comparisons are equally tempting-indeed, virtually unavoidable- and equally difficult to handle. Perhaps by more careful attention to the framework of comparison we can begin to arrive at more testable hypothese…
The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a "Modernizing" Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970
Die Nationalisierung der deutschen Einwanderer und ihrer Nachkommen in Brasilien als Problem der deutsch-brasilianischen Beziehungen 1930-1938
The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964: Part I
P ART I of this article, published in the previous issue, discussed the ideologies and assumptions which have shaped history writing on the years between the founding of the Republic in 1889 and the coup of 1964. The remainder of Part I was devoted to political history. Part II, which follows, begins with a brief discussion of the study of state and local politics. Longer sections are then devoted to economic history and foreign relations
Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935
From Community to Metropolis: A Biography of Sao Paulo, Brazil
From Community to Metropolis: A Biography of Sño Paulo, Brazil
The Historiography of Brazil, 1889-1964, Part II
Economic Development of Latin America: Historical Background and Contemporary Problems
Minas Gerais in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937
Pernambuco in the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1937
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