"Civilizing" Rio

Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

Szerző: Teresa A Meade

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Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: Pennsylvania State University Press

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A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century tr...

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Teresa A Meade

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1996

oldal

224

EAN

9780271028705

ISBN

027102870X

Enbook ID

01249137

Kiadó

Pennsylvania State University Press

Súly

367

Méretek

152 x 229 x 16

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A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized the port, and improved sanitation, lighting, and public transportation. These changes made life worse, not better, for the majority of the city's residents, however; the laboring poor could no longer afford to live in the downtown, and the public-health plan did not extend to the peripheral areas where they were being forced to move. Their resistance is the focus of Teresa Meade's study. Meade details how Rio grew according to the requirements of international capital, which financed, planned, and oversaw the renewal-and how local movements resisted these powerful, distant forces. She also traces the popular rebellion that continued for more than twenty years after the renovation ended in 1909, illustrating that community protests are the major characteristic of political life in the modern era. Teresa A. Meade is Associate Professor of History at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She is co-editor, with Mark Walker, of Science, Medicine, and Cultural Imperialism (St. Martin's, 1991).

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