Forças Armadas E Política No Brasil by José Murilo de Carvalho

A historical and analytical study of the Brazilian military's evolving role in national politics, tracing how armed forces shaped and were shaped by state-building, modernization, and elite interests from the nineteenth century through the twentieth; it examines the institutions, doctrines, and professional ethos that gave the military both autonomy and political leverage, explains episodes of intervention (including coups and periods of authoritarian rule) as products of political crisis and military self-conception, and assesses the tensions and adjustments in civil–military relations during transitions to democracy and in the republic’s contemporary political landscape.