Ronn F Pineo, James A Baer

Cities Of Hope

People, Protests, And Progress In Urbanizing Latin America, 1870-1930

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This groundbreaking book explores the relationship between the impact of urbanization on the working class in Latin American cities and the variety of responses by that group in the years between 1870 and 1930. The chapters of this collaborative study focus on the people of these cities, especially working women and men who were faced with the ramifications of the transformations taking place around them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 155mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780813324449
• ISBN-10: 0813324440
• Artikelnr.: 22076186

Autorenporträt

Ronn F Pineo

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Political Impulses: Popular Participation in Formal and Informal Politics, Bogotá, Colombia
Dangerous Streets: Trolleys, Labor Conflict, and the Reorganization of Public Space in Montevideo, Uruguay
Mexico City: Popular Classes and Revolutionary Politics
Viva La Revolución Social! Postrevolutionary Tenant Protest and State Housing Reform in Veracruz, Mexico
Buenos Aires: Housing Reform and the Decline of the Liberal State in Argentina
Civilizing the City of Kings: Hygiene and Housing in Lima, Peru
Public Health Care in Valparaíso, Chile
The Sick and the Dead: Epidemic and Contagious Disease in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Cities of Panama: Sixty Years of Development
Urbanization, the Working Class, and Reform