The world of Antonio Pereira Rebouças -- Any pardo or preto can be a general -- Defining the Brazilian citizen -- A "guarantor" for the Brazilians -- Terribly anarchic words -- In the empire of property -- Lawyers in action -- At the edge of the civil code.
Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the 19th century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798-1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key - and conflicted - role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understan…
In this Important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific …
In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific …
In this Important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific …
In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific …
The contributors question the current academic understanding of what is known as the global middle class. They see middle-class formation as transnational and they examine this group through the lenses of economics, gender, race, and religion from the mid-nineteenth century to t…
In this Important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific …
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…
Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo.
Winner of the 2011 Thomas E. Skidmore Prize, this new translation of Paulo Fontes's Migration and the Making of Industrial São Paulo is a detailed social history of the millions who migrated from Brazil's Northeast to São Paulo.
A cardboard suitcase and a backpack: Northeastern migrations to Sao Paulo in the 1950s -- Land of the Northeasterners: migration, urbanization, and factory work in Sao Miguel Paulista -- Worker community and everyday life: "becoming Northeastern" in Sao Paulo -- The right to pra…