Fortaleza belle époque
Subtitle: reformas urbanas e controle social: 1860-1930
By: Sebastião Rogério Ponte
Publisher: Fundação Demócrito Rocha
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Fortaleza
Language: por
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Urban renewal -- Brazil -- Fortaleza -- History.; Social control -- History.; Fortaleza (Brazil) -- History.
Description: "Revised MA thesis based on official reports, newspapers, chronicles, and reformist tracts links urban beautification and sanitation reforms to elite project of 'disciplining' workers. Interesting as counterpoint to better-studied case of Rio de Janeiro in Needell (HLAS 50:2705) and Meade (HLAS 52:3066)"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-206).
"Volume 5"--Cover.
Slightly revised version of the author's thesis (master's-- Pontifícia Universidade Católica, 1992)--under the title: Ruas limpas, novos corpos: remodelação urbana e disciplinarização social em Fortaleza na Primeira República.