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A Tropical Belle Epoque

Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro

By: Jeffrey D. Needell

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A Tropical Belle Epoque

Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro

By: Jeffrey D. Needell

This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898 and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It explores such varied topics as architecture, literature, prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe, demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan, fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high tide of European imperialism.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521333741

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The Party of Order

The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

By: Jeffrey D. Needell

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The Party of Order

The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

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This study focuses on the Brazilian Empire's Conservative Party and its success and failure in constructing a representative, constitutional monarchy to defend a slaveholding plantation society.

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Stanford University Press

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0804768064

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9780804768061

The Sacred Cause

The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro

By: Jeffrey Needell

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The Sacred Cause

The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro

By: Jeffrey Needell

For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a form of labor that was traditionally perceived as both indispensable and entirely legitimate? How were the slaveholders who dominated Brazil's constitutional monarchy compelled to agree to it? To answer these questions, we must understand the elite political world that abolitionism challenged and changed—and how the Abolitionist movement evolved in turn. The Sacred Cause analyzes the relations between the movement, its Afro-Brazilian following, and the evolving response of the parliamentary regime in Rio de Janeiro. Jeffrey Needell highlights the significance of racial identity and solidarity to the Abolitionist movement, showing how Afro-Brazilian leadership, organization, and popular mobilization were critical to the movement's identity, nature, and impact.

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1503611035

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The Sacred Cause

The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro

By: Jeffrey Needell

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The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro

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The Party of Order

The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

By: Jeffrey D. Needell

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The Party of Order

The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

By: Jeffrey D. Needell

This study focuses on the Brazilian Empire's Conservative Party and its success and failure in constructing a representative, constitutional monarchy to defend a slaveholding plantation society.

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A Tropical Belle Epoque

A Tropical Belle Epoque

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The Party of Order

The Sacred Cause

The Sacred Cause

The Sacred Cause

The Sacred Cause

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