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"Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

"Civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

Meade, Teresa

Paperback

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySouth American History

ISBN10: 027102870X
ISBN13: 9780271028705
Publisher: Penn St Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 1996
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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