Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- A Note on Translation
- Preface
- Introduction: In Search of Things Past: Mapping Rio
- 1 At the Centre of an Imperial Capital: Swamps, Yellow Fever, and Gypsy Parties
- 2 A Master on the Periphery of a Periphery: Popular Music, Streetcars, and the Republic
- 3 Beyond the Belle Époque: On the Border of a ‘Divided City’
- 4 Afro-Jewish Quarter and Modernist Landmark
- 5 Writing the ‘Cradle of Samba’: Race, Radio, and the Price of Progress
- 6 ‘It's (Mostly) All True’: The Death of a Neighbourhood and the Life of Myths
- Conclusion: The Future Revisited: Where Has the Past Gone and Where Will it Go?
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
List of Figures
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps
- List of Figures
- A Note on Translation
- Preface
- Introduction: In Search of Things Past: Mapping Rio
- 1 At the Centre of an Imperial Capital: Swamps, Yellow Fever, and Gypsy Parties
- 2 A Master on the Periphery of a Periphery: Popular Music, Streetcars, and the Republic
- 3 Beyond the Belle Époque: On the Border of a ‘Divided City’
- 4 Afro-Jewish Quarter and Modernist Landmark
- 5 Writing the ‘Cradle of Samba’: Race, Radio, and the Price of Progress
- 6 ‘It's (Mostly) All True’: The Death of a Neighbourhood and the Life of Myths
- Conclusion: The Future Revisited: Where Has the Past Gone and Where Will it Go?
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Porous CityA Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro (from the 1810s Onward), pp. viiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2013