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

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

About the author

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