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The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics

The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics

Williams, Daryle
Knauss de Mendonça, Paulo
Chazkel, Amy

Paperback

Series: Latin America Readers

South AmericaSouth American History

Publisher Price: $50.00

ISBN10: 0822360063
ISBN13: 9780822360063
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Jan 5 2016
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and strategic port into an economic, cultural, and entertainment capital of the modern world. The volume contains a wealth of primary sources, many of which appear here in English for the first time. A mix of government documents, lyrics, journalism, speeches, ephemera, poems, maps, engravings, photographs, and other sources capture everything from the fantastical impressions of the first European arrivals to the complaints about roving capoeira gangs, and from sobering eyewitness accounts of slavery's brutality to the glitz of Copacabana. The definitive English-language resource on the city, The Rio de Janeiro Reader presents the Marvelous City in all its complexity, importance, and intrigue.

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