The July Revolution of 1924 in São Paulo was very little investigated by Brazilian historiography, especially since it determines the beginning of a systematic preventive and social control by the federal government, especially in health and public safety spheres. This paper studies this transformation in the Brazilian state, particularly with regard to the political police during the government of President Arthur Bernardes (19221926). The hypothesis that guides the work is that in this period was inaugurated a new model for the exercise of political power, by Michel Foucault called biopolitics, the precursor of the future social control state of the Vargas era.
Revolution of 1924; social control; political police; biopolitics