"Civilizing" Rio
Subtitle: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: December 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780271016085
Subjects: Central government policies; Urban communities; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Politics / Current Events; Travel; Brazil; General; Sociology - Urban; South America; History; Political activity; Rio de Janeiro; Social conflict; Urban renewal; Working class
Description: "Conflicts during the Old Republic between Rio de Janeiro's lower orders and their employers, the transit companies, and the state about the effects of 'modernization' resulted in many losses, but also a few victories for the poor. Such popular protests have been marginalized by a historiography that tends to label them 'pre-modern' and to privilege workplace organization and protest over community protest"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.