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Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmatists. He demonstrates that the BrazilianOriginally published in 1981.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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9780691642437 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 19, 2016, cover price $132.50
9780691076287 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1981, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmatists.

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9780691614854 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 14, 2014, cover price $53.00
9780691022031 | Princeton Univ Pr, January 1, 1982, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Drawing on personal interviews with over 250 Brazilian leaders in industry, banking, politics, labor, the civil service, and the church, Peter McDonough challenges the conventional notion of elites in authoritarian regimes as unideological pragmatists.

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Product Description: Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism. Yet conservatives have increasingly dominated the church hierarchy...read more

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9780199751181 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 15, 2013, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Sexual abuse scandals, declining attendance, a meltdown in the number of priests and nuns, the closing of many parishes and parochial schools--all have shaken American Catholicism.

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Product Description: "(This) courageous, ambitious book . . . captures the authentic drama of the Jesuits' confrontation with American modernity".--James T. Fisher, Assistant Professor of American Studies, Yale University. (Roman Catholicism)

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9780029205273 | Free Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Describes how American Jesuits pulled together to operate the nation's leading Catholic schools, seminaries, and universities after World War II, and how their supporters soon dispersed after the social revolution of the sixties

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9780029205280 | Reprint edition (Free Pr, April 1, 1994), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: "(This) courageous, ambitious book .
9780756776756 | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A perceptive & provocative analysis of the transformation that swept through American Catholicism in the decades leading up to Vatican II.

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Product Description: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism. Since the 1960s, however, Jesuits in the United States have lost more than half of their members, and they have experienced a massive upheaval in what they believe and how they work and live...read more

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9780520230552 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism.

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9780520240650 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus remains the largest and most controversial religious order of men in Catholicism.

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Product Description: Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy. This book looks at what that transition has meant for the Spanish people. Drawing on national surveys taken in 1978, 1980, 1984, and 1990, the authors explore three questions: What is the basis of the new regime's political legitimacy? How did Spanish democracy move from the conservative center-right coalition that engineered the transition to the socialist government that consolidated it? And why is political participation so low among Spaniards? The answers to the first two questions highlight the ambiguity built into the political contrast with the Franco regime and a certain appreciation of the material accomplishments of authoritarianism, the pivotal role of the king in opting for democracy while symbolically spanning traditional and modernizing forces, and finally a movement from foundational issues to economic and social concerns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801435164 | Cornell Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Since the death of Franco in 1975, Spain has made a successful transition to democracy.

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Product Description: The population of Brazil increased tenfold, from 10 to over 100 million, between 1880 and 1980, nearly half of this increase occurring since the end of World War II. The Politics of Population in Brazil examines the attitudes toward population planning of Brazilian government officials and other elites—bishops, politicians, labor leaders, and business owners—in comparison with mass public opinion...read more

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9780292764668 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1981, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: The population of Brazil increased tenfold, from 10 to over 100 million, between 1880 and 1980, nearly half of this increase occurring since the end of World War II.

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