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Skidmore, Thomas Elliott was born on July 22, 1932 in Troy, Ohio, United States. Son of Ernest Anton and Josephine (Hale) Skidmore.
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The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of João Goulart in 1964, to the return of democratic civilian government in 1985 with the presidency of José Sarney. A sequel to Skidmore's highly acclaimed Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964, this volume explores the military rule in depth. Why did the military depose Goulart? What kind of "economic miracle" did their technocrats fashion? Why did General Costa e Silva's attempts to "humanize the Revolution" fail, only to be followed by the most repressive regime of the period? What led Generals Geisel and Golbery to launch the liberalization that led to abertura? What role did the Brazilian Catholic Church, the most innovative in the Americas, play? How did the military government respond in the early 1980s to galloping inflation and an unpayable foreign debt? Skidmore concludes by examining the early Sarney presidency and the clues it may offer for the future. Will democratic governments be able to meet the demands of urban workers and landless peasants while maintaining economic growth and international competitiveness? Can Brazil at the same time control inflation and service the largest debt in the developing world? Will its political institutions be able to represent effectively an electorate now three times larger than in 1964? What role will the military play in the future? In recent years, many Third World nations--Argentina, the Philippines, and Uruguay, among others--have moved from repressive military regimes to democratic civilian governments. Skidmore's study provides insight into the nature of this transition in Brazil and what it may tell about the fate of democracy in the Third World.
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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 1930. In an effort to reconcile social realities with the doctrines of scientific racism, the Brazilian ideal of "whitening"—the theory that the Brazilian population was becoming whiter as race mixing continued—was used to justify the recruiting of European immigrants and to falsely claim that Brazil had harmoniously combined a multiracial society of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous peoples.
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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 turbulence, culminating in the explosive coup d'état that overthrew the constitutional government of President Jo~ao Goulart and profoundly changes the nature of Brazil's political institutions. The first book by Thomas E. Skidmore, Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964, immediately became the definitive political history in English and Portuguese of those turbulent times. It was published by OUP in 1937 in hardcover but has been out of print in recent years. For this 40th anniversary, James Green, who is Skidmore's literary executor at Brown University, will write a new foreword for the book, placing it in the context of the literature.a
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Skidmore, Thomas Elliott was born on July 22, 1932 in Troy, Ohio, United States. Son of Ernest Anton and Josephine (Hale) Skidmore.
Bachelor, Denison University, 1954. Doctor of Letters, Denison University, 1975. Bachelor (Fulbright fellow), Oxford University, engineering, 1956.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1961.
Instructor history, Harvard University, 1960-1961;
research fellow in Latin American studies, Harvard University, 1961-1964;
assistant professor of history, Harvard University, 1964-1966;
assistant professor department history, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1966-1967;
associate professor, University of Wisconsin, 1967-1968;
professor, University of Wisconsin, 1968-1988;
director, Ibero-American studies, 1980-1985;
Carlos Manuel de Cespedes professor Modern Latin American History, Brown U., since 1988. Visiting professor University of Oxford, 1972. Lecturer Foreign Svc.
Institute, State Department Social Science. Director Center for Latin American Studies, since 1989.
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Member American Association of University Professors, American History Association, Latin American Studies Association (president, past member executive council, Bryce Wood award 1989), Council Foreign Relations, Center for Inter-American Relations.
Son of; married Felicity Margaret Hall, August 31, 1957. Children– David, James, Robert.