The Rio de Janeiro Reader : History, Culture, Politics

Author(s)

• Williams, Daryle
• Chazkel, Amy
• Mendonça, Paulo Knauss de

Bibliographic Information

The Rio de Janeiro Reader : History, Culture, Politics

Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss, editors

（Latin America readers）

Duke University Press, 2016

• pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-381) and index

Contents of Works

• 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

Details

• NCID: BB27491651
• ISBN:
  • 9780822359746
  • 9780822360063
• LCCN: 2015022350
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Durham
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 390 pages
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : F2646.3
  • DC23 : 981/.53
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- History
  • LCSH : Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Civilization
  • LCSH : Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Politics and government
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA44633314