Suggested works for more information on the Brazilian military dictatorship
The 1964 Coup
Johnson, Ollie Andrew III. Brazilian Party Politics and the Coup of 1964. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
Parker, Phyllis. Brazil and the Quiet Intervention, 1964. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.
Schmitter, Philippe C. Interest Conflict and Political Change in Brazil. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1971.
Weis, W. Michael. Cold Warriors & Coups D’etat: Brazilian-American Relations, 1945-64. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993.
Governments
Alves, Maria Helena Moreira. State and Opposition in Military Brazil. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985.
Bacchus, Wilfred A. Mission in Mufti: Brazil’s Military Regimes, 1964-1985. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
Schneider, Ronald M. The Political System of Brazil: Emergence of a “Modernizing” Authoritarian Regime, 1964-1970. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Skidmore, Thomas E. The Politics of Military Rule in Brazil, 1964-85. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Stepan, Alfred. The Military in Politics: Changing Patterns in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971.
______. ed. Authoritarian Brazil: Origins, Policies, and Future. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973.
Opposition and Social Movements under Military Rule
Dunn, Christopher. Brutality Garden: Tropicália and the Emergence of a Brazilian Counterculture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.
Erickson, Kenneth Paul. The Brazilian Corporative State and Working Class Politics. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.
Garfield, Seth. Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988. Durham: Duke University Press, 2001.
Green, James N. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Hanchard, Michael George. Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1945-1988. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Langland, Victoria. Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.
Maybury-Lewis, Biorn. The Politics of the Possible: The Brazilian Rural Workers’ Trade Union Movement, 1964-1985. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Economy and Economic Policy
Baer, Werner and Joseph S. Tulchin, eds. Brazil and the Challenge of Economic Reform. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1993.
Bruneau, Thomas C. and Philippe Faucher, eds. Authoritarian Capitalism: Brazil’s Contemporary Economic and Political Development. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1981.
Bucco, Jack A. The Economic Policy of the Brazilian Military Regime, 1964-1985. Boston: Pearson Custom Pub, 2002.
Daland, Robert T. Brazilian Planning: Development, Politics, and Administration. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1967.
Friedman, Sofia. Brazil, 1960-1990: Structures of Power and Processes of Change. Lanham: University Press of America, 2003.
The Repressive Apparatus
Huggins, Martha. Political Policing: The United States and Latin America. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.
Sattamini, Lina Penna. A Mother’s Cry: A Memoir of Politics, Prison, and Torture under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship. Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.
Serbin, Kenneth P. Secret Dialogues: Church-State Relations, Torture, and Social Justice in Authoritarian Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000.
Archdiocese of São Paulo (Brazil). Torture in Brazil: A Shocking Report on the Pervasive Use of Torture by Brazilian Military Governments, 1964-1979 / secretly Prepared by the Archdiocese of São Paulo. [Brazil, Nunca Mas] Jaime Wright, trans.; edited with a new preface by Joan Dassin. Austin: University of Texas, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1985.