Rio de Janeiro Reader (eBook, PDF)

History, Culture, Politics
Redaktion: Daryle Williams, Williams

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 "e;Marvelous City"e; in all its complexity, importance, and intrigue.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822375067
• Artikelnr.: 54786809

Autorenporträt

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 Chance: Brazil's Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life , also published by Duke University Press. Paulo Knauss is Professor of History at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Niterói, Brazil) and the author of Rio de Janeiro da pacificação: Franceses e portugueses na disputa colonial.  

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Translations, Spelling, and Monetary Units  xi
Place-Names and Way-Finding  xiii
Acknowledgments  xvii
Introduction: The Marvelous City  1
I. Colonial Rio  9
The Early Colonial Period, 1502–1720s
The Viceregal Period, 1763–1808
The Transfer of the Portuguese Court (1808–1820s)
II. Imperial Rio  73
The Independence Era, 1820s–1830s
A Neutral Municipality, 1834–1889
III. Republican Rio  139
The Federal District, 1889–1930
The Federal District, 1930–1960
IV. Recent Rio  235
The City and State of Guanabara, 1960–1975
After the Fusion, 1975–1980s
Contemporary Rio, 1990s–2015
Suggestions for Further Reading and Viewing  367
Acknowledgments of Copyrights and Sources  375
Index  383