Frank D. McCann is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. He is author of The Brazilian-American Alliance 1937- 1945, runner-up for the Bolton Prize and winner of the 1975 Bernath Prize .

This book provides an authoritative history of the Brazilian army from the army's overthrow of the monarchy in 1889 to its support of the coup that established Brazil's first civilian dictatorship in 1937. The period between these two events laid the political foundations of modern Brazil--a period in which the army served as the core institution of an expanding and modernizing Brazilian state.
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