Urban space and national identity in early twentieth century São Paulo, Brazil : crafting modernity

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    • Mehrtens, Cristina

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Urban space and national identity in early twentieth century São Paulo, Brazil : crafting modernity

Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-264) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of Sao Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil.

Table of Contents

Public and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions In the 1930s The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees In the 1930s The Symbolic Construction of Paulista Urban Identity Politics and Urban Change: The Pacaembu Scheme, 1933-1940

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