"Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930 / Teresa A. Meade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meade, Teresa A., 1948- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Political activity--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.

Working class.

Social conflict--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.

Social conflict.

Urban renewal--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro--History.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 212 pages) : illustrations, map

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1997]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Civilization

2. The Features of Urban Life

3. Sanitation and Renovation

4. The Resistance

5. Living and Working Conditions

6. The General Strike

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-206) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271072753

027107275X

9780271072777

0271072776

OCLC:

1257323884