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"Civilizing" Rio

Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

by Teresa A. Meade

1996 208 pages eng

"Conflicts during the Old Republic between Rio de Janeiro's lower orders and their employers, the transit companies, and the state about the effects of 'modernization' resulted in many losses, but also a few victories for the poor. Such popular protests have been marginalized by a historiography tha…

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