“Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930 - Teresa Meade - Livros - Pennsylvania State University Press - 9780271028705 - 15 de setembro de 1996
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“Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930

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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.


224 pages

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 15 de setembro de 1996
ISBN13 9780271028705
Editoras Pennsylvania State University Press
Páginas 224
Dimensões 152 × 229 × 16 mm   ·   367 g
Idioma Inglês  

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