The Rio de Janeiro Reader [electronic resource] : History, Culture, Politics / Daryle Williams, Amy Chazkel, and Paulo Knauss, editors.

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Latin America readers.
Other Authors: Williams, Daryle, 1967- (Editor)
Chazkel, Amy, 1967- (Editor)
Mendonça, Paulo Knauss de, 1965- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Latin America readers.
Subjects:
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > History.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Civilization.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Politics and government.
Online Access:
Latin American Studies e-Book Collection: 2015 (Digital Object Identifier Permalink)
Variant Title:
The Rio de Janeiro Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • 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 da Manhã, staff photographer
  • After the fusion, 1975-1980s
  • Dancin' days / Nelson Motta with Ruban Sabino
  • Burger wars of 1979 / Jornal do Brasil
  • Barra da Tijuca, boomtown (but not for all) / Israel Klabin, Angela Coronel and Heloisa Perez
  • State terror in the early 1980s / James J. Blystone and Joaquim de Lima Barreto
  • The consumer spectacle of BarraShopping / Cora Rónai
  • A weekend at Maracan? / João Baptista Figueiredo
  • The Spider Woman kisses Rio / Tânia Brandão
  • Rallying for direct elections / Ricardo Kotscho
  • A summer up in smoke / Chacal
  • Contemporary Rio, 1990s-2015
  • Female planet / Claudia Ferreira
  • From favela to Bairro / Fernando Cavalieri
  • Adeus 2-2-6! / Paulo Mussoi
  • In praise of a modernist monument / Gilberto Gil
  • Venerating Escrava Anastácia / Kelly E. Hayes
  • Campaigning for a "Rio without homophobia" / Rio de Janeiro State Secretariat for Human Rights
  • The last night at help / Flávia Lima
  • (Re)Constructing Black consciousness / Benedito Sérgio and Ailton Benedito de Sousa
  • A quilombo in Lagoa / Marcelo Fernandes
  • An oral history of Brazilian jiu-jitsu / Ben Penglase and Rolker Gracie
  • Whatever your fantasia, always use a condom / Ministry of Health
  • "Pacification" / Adam Isacson and Observatório de Favelas
  • An open lettter from a massacre survivor / Wagner dos Santos
  • Reading and writing the suburbs / Biblioteca Parque de Manguinhos, Samuel M. Silva and Alex Araujo
  • A century of change at the port / Halley Pacheco de Oliveira and unknown photographer(s).