The Rio de Janeiro reader
Subtitle: history, culture, politics
By: Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss, editors
Contributors: Mendonça, Paulo Knauss de, 1965- editor
Series: The Latin America readers; Latin America readers
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780822359746; 9780822360063
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Politics and government; Civilization; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-381) and index.

Articles translated from the Portuguese, French, or Spanish.
Table of contents: title: The early colonial period, 1502-1720s. A navigator's diary / Pero Lopes de Sousa; title: On "Brazilian savages" / Jean de Léry; title: Channeling the Carioca River / Municipal Chamber; title: The Cachaça revolt / Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides and others; title: French corsairs attack / René Duguay-Trouin and Jonas Finck; title: Mapping the city's defenses / João Massé; title: The wages of indigenous labor / Municipal Chamber; title: The viceregal period, 1763-1808. The customary rights of market women / Quitandeiras of Rio de Janeiro and Carlos Julião; title: Valongo, a notorious slave market / Bráz Hermenegildo do Amaral and Jean-Baptiste Debret; title: Fire and reconstruction of an asylum for women / João Francisco Muzzi; title: Whaling in Guanabara Bay / Leandro Joaquim; title: Lettered men under investigation / Conde de Resende and José Bernardo da Silveira Frade; title: Cultivating cinnamon in late colonial Rio / Bernardino António Gomes; title: The transfer of the Portuguese court (1808-1820s). Eagerly awaiting the royal family / Padre Perereca; title: "Infectious disorders" of the port / W. Sidney Smith; title: The Passeio Público / John Luccock; title: The independence era, 1820s-1830s. The Feast of the Holy Spirit / Henry Chamberlain and G. Hunt; title: The emperor dissolves the Constitutional Assembly / Henry Chamberlain and Dom Pedro I; title: Views of the palace square / Jean-Baptiste Debret; title: The night of the bottle-whippings / O Republico; title: Mapping the capital of imperial Brazil / E. de la Michellerie; title: The slave dance called Candomblé / Eusébio de Queiroz; title: A neutral municipality, 1834-1889. From the dungeon to the house of correction / Eusébio de Queiroz; title: Photography arrives in Rio / Louis Compte and Jornal do Commercio; title: Transient laborers of the fazenda Santa Cruz / Paulo Barboza da Silva; title: Recollections of nineteenth-century women / Adèle Toussaint-Samson; title: Workers, for sale or rent / Diário do Rio de Janeiro; title: Maria Angola denounces illegal enslavement / Maria Angola and Miguel Paes Pimenta; title: The capoeira gangs of Rio / João Jacintho de Mello; title: French-language classifieds / Courrier du Brésil; title: Public entertainment in imperial Rio / Joaquim Manoel de Macedo; title: Sex trafficking in the imperial capital / 759 Citizens; title: Visualizing "a carioca" / Pedro Américo de Figueiredo e Melo; title: A city celebrates slave emancipation / A. Luiz Ferreira and Machado de Assis; title: The Federal District, 1889-1930. Making the Federal District / Constituent Assembly; title: The legendary festival of Our Lady of Penha / Alexandre José de Mello Moraes Filho; title: The animal game / Francisco José Viveiros de Castro; title: An allegation of infanticide / Margarida Rosa da Assumpção and others; title: The Hotel Avenida / Brasil-Moderno; title: Rio's kiosks / Augusto Malta; title: The cult of nostalgia / João do Norte; title: Anarchists under arrest / Corpo de Investigação e Segurança Pública do Distrito Federal; title: Demolition of the Morro do Castelo / Carlos Sampaio; title: Exhuming Estácio de Sá / Various notables; title: The Federal District, 1930-1960. Gaúchos take the obelisk / Anonymous; title: "Flying down to Rio" / Louis Brock; title: Bertha Lutz Goes to Congress / Bertha Lutz; title: The Fount of the Queen / Armando Magalhães Corrêa; title: A writer's Brazilian diary / Stefan Zweig; title: Rio and World War II / U.S. War Department and Walt Disney Studios; title: A fond farewell to Praça Onze / Herivelto Martins; title: Avenida Presidente Vargas / Hélio Alves de Brito; title: Introducing the "Civilized Indian" / João José Macedo, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon; title: Madame Satã : a grifter in Lapa / João Francisco dos Santos and others; title: A city's crushing defeat at the World Cup / Jornal do Brasil and Correio da Manhã; title: Carmen Miranda shines in "Ca Room Pa Pa" / MGM Studios; title: "Soldiers of fire" / Getúlio Vargas; title: Censoring Rio / 40 Graus, Ralph Benedicto Zumbano; title: The diplomacy of samba / Jornal do Brasil; title: The city and state of Guanabara, 1960-1975. The ephemeral state of Guanabara / Federal Congress; title: Recreation in the Parque do Flamengo / Ethel Bauzer de Medeiros and others; title: This house is yours! / Carlos Lacerda; title: An act of student protest / Correio da Manhã, staff photographer; title: After the fusion, 1975-1980s. Dancin' days / Nelson Motta with Ruban Sabino; title: Burger wars of 1979 / Jornal do Brasil; title: Barra da Tijuca, boomtown (but not for all) / Israel Klabin, Angela Coronel and Heloisa Perez; title: State terror in the early 1980s / James J. Blystone and Joaquim de Lima Barreto; title: The consumer spectacle of BarraShopping / Cora Rónai; title: A weekend at Maracanã / João Baptista Figueiredo; title: The Spider Woman kisses Rio / Tânia Brandão; title: Rallying for direct elections / Ricardo Kotscho; title: A summer up in smoke / Chacal; title: Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015. Female planet / Claudia Ferreira; title: From favela to Bairro / Fernando Cavalieri; title: Adeus 2-2-6! / Paulo Mussoi; title: In praise of a modernist monument / Gilberto Gil; title: Venerating Escrava Anastácia / Kelly E. Hayes; title: Campaigning for a "Rio without homophobia" / Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Human Rights; title: The last night at help / Flávia Lima; title: (Re)Constructing Black consciousness / Benedito Sérgio and Ailton Benedito de Sousa; title: A quilombo in Lagoa / Marcelo Fernandes; title: An oral history of Brazilian jiu-jitsu / Ben Penglase and Rolker Gracie; title: Whatever your fantasia, always use a condom / Ministry of Health; title: "Pacification" / Adam Isacson and Observatório de Favelas; title: An open lettter from a massacre survivor / Wagner dos Santos; title: Reading and writing the suburbs / Biblioteca Parque de Manguinhos, Samuel M. Silva and Alex Araujo; title: A century of change at the port / Halley Pacheco de Oliveira and unknown photographer(s).