Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 390 pages)
ISBN:
9780822375067
,
0822375060
Series Statement:
The Latin America readers
Content:
A navigator's diary / Pero Lopes de Sousa -- On "Brazilian savages" / Jean de Léry -- Channeling the Carioca River / Municipal Chamber -- The Cachaça revolt / Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides and others -- French corsairs attack / René Duguay-Trouin and Jonas Finck -- Mapping the city's defenses / João Massé -- The wages of indigenous labor / Municipal Chamber -- The viceregal period, 1763-1808 -- The customary rights of market women / Quitandeiras of Rio de Janeiro and Carlos Júlio -- Valongo, a notorious slave market / Bráz Hermenegildo do Amaral and Jean-Baptiste Debret -- Fire and reconstruction of an asylum for women / João Francisco Muzzi -- Whaling in Guanabara Bay / Leandro Joaquim -- Lettered men under investigation / Conde de Resende and José Bernardo da Silveira Frade -- Cultivating cinnamon in late colonial Rio / Bernardino António Gomes -- The transfer of the Portuguese court (1808-1820s) -- Eagerly awaiting the royal family / Padre Perereca -- "Infectious disorders" of the port / W. Sidney Smith -- The Passeio Público / John Luccock -- The independence era, 1820s-1830s -- The Feast of the Holy Spirit / Henry Chamberlain and G. Hunt -- The emperor dissolves the Constitutional Assembly / Henry Chamberlain and Dom Pedro I -- Views of the palace square / Jean-Baptiste Debret -- The night of the bottle-whippings / O Republico -- Mapping the capital of imperial Brazil / E. de la Michellerie -- The slave dance called Candomblé / Eusébio de Queiroz -- A neutral municipality, 1834-1889 -- From the dungeon to the house of correction / Eusébio de Queiroz -- Photography arrives in Rio / Louis Compte and Jornal do Commercio -- Transient laborers of the fazenda Santa Cruz / Paulo Barboza da Silva -- Recollections of nineteenth-century women / Adèle Toussaint-Samson -- Workers, for sale or rent / Diário do Rio de Janeiro -- Maria Angola denounces illegal enslavement / Maria Angola and Miguel Paes Pimenta -- The capoeira gangs of Rio / João Jacintho de Mello -- French-language classifieds / Courrier du Brésil -- Public entertainment in imperial Rio / Joaquim Manoel de Macedo -- Sex trafficking in the imperial capital / 759 Citizens -- Visualizing "a carioca" / Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo -- A city celebrates slave emancipation / A. Luiz Ferreira and Machado de Assis -- The Federal District, 1889-1930 -- Making the Federal District / Constituent Assembly -- The legendary festival of Our Lady of Penha / Alexandre José de Mello Moraes Filho -- The animal game / Francisco José Viveiros de Castro -- An allegation of infanticide / Margarida Rosa da Assumpção and others -- The Hotel Avenida / Brasil-Moderno -- Rio's kiosks / Augusto Malta -- The cult of nostalgia / João do Norte -- Anarchists under arrest / Corpo de Investigação e Segurança Pública do Distrito Federal -- Demolition of the Morro do Castelo / Carlos Sampaio -- Exhuming Estácio de Sá / Various notables -- The Federal District, 1930-1960 -- Gaúchos take the obelisk / Anonymous -- "Flying down to Rio" / Louis Brock -- Bertha Lutz Goes to Congress / Bertha Lutz -- The Fount of the Queen / Armando Magalhães Corrêa -- A writer's Brazilian diary / Stefan Zweig -- Rio and World War II / U.S. War Department and Walt Disney Studios -- A fond farewell to Praça Onze / Herivelto Martins -- Avenida Presidente Vargas / Hélio Alves de Brito -- Introducing the "Civilized Indian" / João José Macedo, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon -- Madame Sat? : a grifter in Lapa / João Francisco dos Santos and others -- A city's crushing defeat at the World Cup / Jornal do Brasil and Correio da Manh? -- Carmen Miranda shines in "Ca Room Pa Pa" / MGM Studios -- "Soldiers of fire" / Getúlio Vargas -- Censoring Rio / 40 Graus, Ralph Benedicto Zumbano -- The diplomacy of samba / Jornal do Brasil -- The city and state of Guanabara, 1960-1975 -- The ephemeral state of Guanabara / Federal Congress -- Recreation in the Parque do Flamengo / Ethel Bauzer de Medeiros and others -- This house is yours! / Carlos Lacerda -- An act of student protest / Correio da Manhã, staff photographer -- After the fusion, 1975-1980s -- Dancin' days / Nelson Motta with Ruban Sabino -- Burger wars of 1979 / Jornal do Brasil -- Barra da Tijuca, boomtown (but not for all) / Israel Klabin, Angela Coronel and Heloisa Perez -- State terror in the early 1980s / James J. Blystone and Joaquim de Lima Barreto -- The consumer spectacle of BarraShopping / Cora Rónai -- A weekend at Maracan? / João Baptista Figueiredo -- The Spider Woman kisses Rio / Tânia Brandão -- Rallying for direct elections / Ricardo Kotscho -- A summer up in smoke / Chacal -- Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015 -- Female planet / Claudia Ferreira -- From favela to Bairro / Fernando Cavalieri -- Adeus 2-2-6! / Paulo Mussoi -- In praise of a modernist monument / Gilberto Gil -- Venerating Escrava Anastácia / Kelly E. Hayes -- Campaigning for a "Rio without homophobia" / Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Human Rights -- The last night at help / Flávia Lima -- (Re)Constructing Black consciousness / Benedito Sérgio and Ailton Benedito de Sousa -- A quilombo in Lagoa / Marcelo Fernandes -- An oral history of Brazilian jiu-jitsu / Ben Penglase and Rolker Gracie -- Whatever your fantasia, always use a condom / Ministry of Health -- "Pacification" / Adam Isacson and Observatório de Favelas -- An open lettter from a massacre survivor / Wagner dos Santos -- Reading and writing the suburbs / Biblioteca Parque de Manguinhos, Samuel M. Silva and Alex Araujo -- A century of change at the port / Halley Pacheco de Oliveira and unknown photographer(s).
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822359746
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Rio de Janeiro reader Durham : Duke University Press, 2016 ISBN 9780822359746
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780822360063
Language:
English
Keywords:
Rio de Janeiro
;
Politik
;
Kultur
;
Geschichte 1502-2015
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1215/9780822375067
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822375067?locatt=mode:legacy
