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Author Meade, Teresa A., 1948-

Title "Civilizing" Rio : reform and resistance in a Brazilian city, 1889-1930 / Teresa A. Meade
Published [United States] : Penn State University Press : Made available through hoopla, 1996

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Contents Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Civilization -- 2. The Features of Urban Life -- 3. Sanitation and Renovation -- 4. The Resistance -- 5. Living and Working Conditions -- 6. The General Strike -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized the port, and improved sanitation, lighting, and public transportation. These changes made life worse, not better, for the majority of the city's residents, however; the laboring poor could no longer afford to live in the downtown, and the public-health plan did not extend to the peripheral areas where they were being forced to move. Their resistance is the focus of Teresa Meade's study. Meade details how Rio grew according to the requirements of international capital, which financed, planned, and oversaw the renewal-and how local movements resisted these powerful, distant forces. She also traces the popular rebellion that continued for more than twenty years after the renovation ended in 1909, illustrating that community protests are the major characteristic of political life in the modern era
Subject Urban renewal -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History
Working class -- Political activity -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History
Social conflict -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- City Planning & Urban Development.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban.
Social conflict
Urban renewal
Working class -- Political activity
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780271072753
027107275X
9780271072777
0271072776