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Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9781503632929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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124,92 zł |
Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780804757447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio de Janeiro alive, Zephyr Frank flips the historian's usual interest in literature as a source of evidence and, instead, uses the historical context to understand literature. By focusing on the theme of social integration through the novels of Jose de Alencar, Machado de Assis, and Aluisio Azevedo, the author draws the reader's attention to the way characters are caught between conflicting moral imperatives as they encounter the newly mobile,... Reading Rio de Janeiro blazes a new trail for understanding the cultural history of 19th-century Brazil. To bring the social fabric of Rio d... |
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515,49 zł |
Dutra's World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
ISBN: 9780826334114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The relation of slavery to Brazil's economic and social history has long fascinated researchers. Zephyr Frank focuses on nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro, where almost half of the city's residents labored as slaves of diverse owners in a complex urban setting. Slavery persisted in the Brazilian city, in part, because it was entrenched among upwardly mobile entrepreneurs who hired their slaves out for wages, employed them in family businesses, and bought and sold them for profit. Changes in the institution of slavery and the economy of the city gradually limited access to slaves,... The relation of slavery to Brazil's economic and social history has long fascinated researchers. Zephyr Frank focuses on nineteenth-century Rio de ... |
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187,69 zł |