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The Rio de Janeiro reader : history, culture, politics / Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss, editors.
LIBRA F2646.3 .R568 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latin America readers
- The Latin America readers
- Language:
- English
- French
- Portuguese
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--History.
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Civilization.
- Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Politics and government.
- Civilization.
- Politics and government.
- Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 390 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- Articles translated from the Portuguese, French, or Spanish.
- Summary:
- 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The early colonial period, 1502-1720s. A navigator's diary / Pero Lopes de Sousa
- On "Brazilian savages" / Jean de Léry
- Channeling the Carioca River / Municipal Chamber
- The Cachaça revolt / Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides and others
- French corsairs attack / René Duguay-Trouin and Jonas Finck
- Mapping the city's defenses / João Massé
- The wages of indigenous labor / Municipal Chamber
- The viceregal period, 1763-1808. The customary rights of market women / Quitandeiras of Rio de Janeiro and Carlos Julião
- Valongo, a notorious slave market / Bráz Hermenegildo do Amaral and Jean-Baptiste Debret
- Fire and reconstruction of an asylum for women / João Francisco Muzzi
- Whaling in Guanabara Bay / Leandro Joaquim
- Lettered men under investigation / Conde de Resende and José Bernardo da Silveira Frade
- Cultivating cinnamon in late colonial Rio / Bernardino António Gomes
- The transfer of the Portuguese court (1808-1820s). Eagerly awaiting the royal family / Padre Perereca
- "Infectious disorders" of the port / W. Sidney Smith
- The Passeio Público / John Luccock
- The independence era, 1820s-1830s. The Feast of the Holy Spirit / Henry Chamberlain and G. Hunt
- The emperor dissolves the Constitutional Assembly / Henry Chamberlain and Dom Pedro I
- Views of the palace square / Jean-Baptiste Debret
- The night of the bottle-whippings / O Republico
- Mapping the capital of imperial Brazil / E. de la Michellerie
- The slave dance called Candomblé / Eusébio de Queiroz
- A neutral municipality, 1834-1889. From the dungeon to the house of correction / Eusébio de Queiroz
- Photography arrives in Rio / Louis Compte and Jornal do Commercio
- Transient laborers of the fazenda Santa Cruz / Paulo Barboza da Silva
- Recollections of nineteenth-century women / Adèle Toussaint-Samson
- Workers, for sale or rent / Diário do Rio de Janeiro
- Maria Angola denounces illegal enslavement / Maria Angola and Miguel Paes Pimenta
- The capoeira gangs of Rio / João Jacintho de Mello
- French-language classifieds / Courrier du Brésil
- Public entertainment in imperial Rio / Joaquim Manoel de Macedo
- Sex trafficking in the imperial capital / 759 Citizens
- Visualizing "a carioca" / Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo
- A city celebrates slave emancipation / A. Luiz Ferreira and Machado de Assis
- The Federal District, 1889-1930. Making the Federal District / Constituent Assembly
- The legendary festival of Our Lady of Penha / Alexandre José de Mello Moraes Filho
- The animal game / Francisco José Viveiros de Castro
- An allegation of infanticide / Margarida Rosa da Assumpção and others
- The Hotel Avenida / Brasil-Moderno
- Rio's kiosks / Augusto Malta
- The cult of nostalgia / João do Norte
- Anarchists under arrest / Corpo de Investigação e Segurança Pública do Distrito Federal
- Demolition of the Morro do Castelo / Carlos Sampaio
- Exhuming Estácio de Sá / Various notables
- The Federal District, 1930-1960. Gaúchos take the obelisk / Anonymous
- "Flying down to Rio" / Louis Brock
- Bertha Lutz Goes to Congress / Bertha Lutz
- The Fount of the Queen / Armando Magalhães Corrêa
- A writer's Brazilian diary / Stefan Zweig
- Rio and World War II / U.S. War Department and Walt Disney Studios
- A fond farewell to Praça Onze / Herivelto Martins
- Avenida Presidente Vargas / Hélio Alves de Brito
- Introducing the "Civilized Indian" / João José Macedo, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon
- Madame Satã : a grifter in Lapa / João Francisco dos Santos and others
- A city's crushing defeat at the World Cup / Jornal do Brasil and Correio da Manhã
- Carmen Miranda shines in "Ca Room Pa Pa" / MGM Studios
- "Soldiers of fire" / Getúlio Vargas
- Censoring Rio / 40 Graus, Ralph Benedicto Zumbano
- The diplomacy of samba / Jornal do Brasil
- The city and state of Guanabara, 1960-1975. The ephemeral state of Guanabara / Federal Congress
- Recreation in the Parque do Flamengo / Ethel Bauzer de Medeiros and others
- This house is yours! / Carlos Lacerda
- An act of student protest / Correio da Manhã, staff photographer
- After the fusion, 1975-1980s. Dancin' days / Nelson Motta with Ruban Sabino
- Burger wars of 1979 / Jornal do Brasil
- Barra da Tijuca, boomtown (but not for all) / Israel Klabin, Angela Coronel and Heloisa Perez
- State terror in the early 1980s / James J. Blystone and Joaquim de Lima Barreto
- The consumer spectacle of BarraShopping / Cora Rónai
- A weekend at Maracanã / João Baptista Figueiredo
- The Spider Woman kisses Rio / Tânia Brandão
- Rallying for direct elections / Ricardo Kotscho
- A summer up in smoke / Chacal
- Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015. Female planet / Claudia Ferreira
- From favela to Bairro / Fernando Cavalieri
- Adeus 2-2-6! / Paulo Mussoi
- In praise of a modernist monument / Gilberto Gil
- Venerating Escrava Anastácia / Kelly E. Hayes
- Campaigning for a "Rio without homophobia" / Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Human Rights
- The last night at help / Flávia Lima
- (Re)Constructing Black consciousness / Benedito Sérgio and Ailton Benedito de Sousa
- A quilombo in Lagoa / Marcelo Fernandes
- An oral history of Brazilian jiu-jitsu / Ben Penglase and Rolker Gracie
- Whatever your fantasia, always use a condom / Ministry of Health
- "Pacification" / Adam Isacson and Observatório de Favelas
- An open lettter from a massacre survivor / Wagner dos Santos
- Reading and writing the suburbs / Biblioteca Parque de Manguinhos, Samuel M. Silva and Alex Araujo
- A century of change at the port / Halley Pacheco de Oliveira and unknown photographer(s).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-381) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822359746
- 082235974X
- 9780822360063
- 0822360063
- OCLC:
- 900594727
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