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

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. ""Hard Times in the Marvelous City" will be essential reading for anyone interested in Brazil's redemocratization, grassroots political mobilization and the challenges of governance, and the policing and violence that have intersected in the recent history of Rio de Janeiro's favelas and their city."--Jerry Davila, author of "Hotel Tropico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980" Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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Authors Bryan Mccann
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 17.01.2014
 
EAN 9780822355236
ISBN 978-0-8223-5523-6
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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