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Hard Times in the Marvelous City - From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio De Janeiro

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Bryan McCann is Associate Professor of History at Georgetown University. He is the author of Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil, also published by Duke University Press, and Throes of Democracy: Brazil since 1989.


List of contents










List of Illustrations vii

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. The Big Picture 19

2. Mobilization 43

3. Reform 77

4. The Breaking Point 121

5. The Unraveling 159

Epilogue 181

Notes 199

Bibliography 227

Index 243

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Bryan McCann

Summary

This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Product details

Authors Bryan Mccann
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 17.01.2014
 
EAN 9780822355380
ISBN 978-0-8223-5538-0
No. of pages 256
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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