The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Daryle Williams
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Description for The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Hardback. Editor(s): Williams, Daryle; Chazkel, Amy; Knauss De Mendonca, Paulo. Series: The Latin America Readers. Num Pages: 408 pages, 72 illustrations, incl. 11 in color. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 749.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
The Latin America Readers
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822359746
SKU
V9780822359746
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About Daryle Williams
Daryle Williams is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland and the author of Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930–1945, also published by Duke University Press. Amy Chazkel is Associate Professor of History at the City University of New York, Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and the author of Laws of ... Read more
Reviews for The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
"The Rio Reader is an excellent source of materials for the classroom in all the multiple fields of urban history from a social, political, economic, or cultural perspective. They would come handy on any course focusing on global history, the Black Atlantic, port cities, planning history (in addition to courses on Latin American history in general). Even more, the book ... Read more