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...
A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of E...
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
An extensive survey of the history of women around the world, their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years.
Discusses family history, the history of the body and sexuality, and cultural history alongside women's history and gender history.
Considers the...
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and look...
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and European backgrounds from the onset of independence until today.
Illustrates and analyzes the major and minor events that shape history, the triumphs and defeats, and the everyday lives of people of varied classes and racial and ethnic backgrounds
Intersperses accounts of the lives of prominent figures with those of ordinary people
Emphasizes gender's role in influencing political and economic change and shaping...
A History of Modern Latin America: 1800 to the Present examines the diverse and interlocking experiences of people of indigenous, African, and ...
A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural superiority on societies of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
A text which describes the ways that European powers used science and scientific inquiry to enforce their supposed cultural superiority on societies o...
