"civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930 by Teresa Meade

"civilizing" Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889-1930

Teresa Meade

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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 gov...

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