{"product_id":"the-unpast-44-r-s-rose-9780896802438","title":"The Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000 Volume 44","description":"\u003cp\u003ePortuguese and Brazilian slave-traders shipped at least four million slaves to Brazil--in contrast to the five hundred thousand slaves that English vessels brought to the Americas. Controlling the vast number of slaves in Brazil became of primary importance. \u003ci\u003eThe Unpast: Elite Violence and Social Control in Brazil, 1954-2000\u003c\/i\u003e documents the ways in which the brutal methods used on plantations led directly to the phenomenon of Brazilian death squads.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unpast\u003c\/i\u003e examines how and why, after the abolition of slavery, elites in Brazil imported new methods of killing, torturing, or disfiguring dissidents and the poor to maintain dominance. Bringing a critical-historical analysis to events following the 1954 suicide of President Getúlio Vargas, R. S. Rose takes the reader along a fifty-year path that helped to shape a nation's morals. He covers the misunderstood presidency of João Goulart; the overthrow of his government by a U.S.-assisted military; the appalling dictatorship that followed; the efforts to rid the countryside of troublemakers; and the ongoing attempt to cleanse the urban environment of the needy, an endeavor that produced 32,675 victims in just two Brazilian states between 1954 and 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe largest and most comprehensive documentation of suspected death-squad victims ever undertaken, \u003ci\u003eThe Unpast \u003c\/i\u003eis an exposé of practices and attitudes toward the poor in Latin America's largest country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. S. Rose\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0896802434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780896802438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/09\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.52h x 7.20w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2006 pg. 354\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMulticultural Review\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2006 pg. 72","brand":"R. S. Rose","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44149210644735,"sku":"9780896802438","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c60a68e6-eba8-48b6-91eb-639cf36488a9.jpg?v=1688455441","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-unpast-44-r-s-rose-9780896802438","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}