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Regina Horta Duarte
Three seminal Brazilian authors published some of their most important works in the period in which Brazil lived under the authoritarian regime of the Estado Novo (1937-45): Northeast by Gilberto Freyre, The Colonial Background of Modern Brazil, by Caio Prado Júnior and River Expeditions, by Sérgio B. de Holanda. Besides the proximity in time of their publication, all of them broadly analyze the relations between man and the environment. Differently from the majority of people of their time, they extended their understanding beyond the grandiose speeches, in which the territorial grandeur and abundance of wealth became the founding element of a nationalist spirit. The occupation of the territory was studied as historical, social, economic, and cultural action. Their works suggest proposals for the transformation of Brazilian society, with the making of a path to modernity different from the Iberian heritage as well as the idealized patterns in Vargas¿s dictatorship.
