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Introduction: The Marvelous City
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Part I. Colonial Rio
Boxer
, C. R.
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, 1952
.Edmundo
, Luiz
. Rio in the Time of the Viceroys
. Translated by Momsen
Dorothea Harneker
. Rio de Janeiro
: J. R. de Oliveira
, 1936
.Lara
, Silvia Hunold
. “Customs and Costumes: Carlos Julião and the Image of Black Slaves in Late Eighteenth-Century Brazil
.” Slavery and Abolition
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), 123
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.Léry
, Jean de
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. Berkeley
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, 1993
.Luccock
, John
. Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the Southern Parts of Brazil; Taken during a Residence of Ten Years in That Country, from 1808 to 1818
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, 1820
.Schultz
, Kirsten
. A Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
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, 2001
.Soares
, Mariza de Carvalho
. People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
. Translated by Metz
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, 2011
.Wilken
, Patrick
. Empire Adrift: The Portuguese Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821
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, 2004
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Part II. Imperial Rio
Almeida
, Manuel Antônio de
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, 2000
.Azevedo
, Aluísio
. Mulatto [O Mulato]
. Translated by Macnicoll
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. Texas Pan-American Series
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, 1993
.Barbosa
, Rosana
. Immigration and Xenophobia: Portuguese Immigrants in Early Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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, 2008
.Barman
, Roderick
. Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–1891
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: Stanford University Press
, 1999
.Cowling
, Camillia
. Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 2013
.Dent
, Charles Hastings
. A Year in Brazil, with Notes on the Abolition of Slavery, the Finances of the Empire, Religion, Meteorology, Natural History, etc
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, 1886
.Frank
, Zephyr
. Dutra’s World: Wealth and Family in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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: University of New Mexico Press
, 2004
.Hahner
, June E.
, and Toussaint-Samson
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. A Parisian in Brazil: The Travel Account of a Frenchwoman in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
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: Rowman and Littlefield
, 2001
.Holloway
, Thomas
. Policing Rio de Janeiro: Repression and Resistance in a Nineteenth-Century City
. Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
, 1993
.Karasch
, Mary C.
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: Princeton University Press
, 1987
.Kraay
, Hendrik
. Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889
. Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
, 2013
.Lauderdale Graham
, Sandra
. House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
. Austin
: University of Texas Press
, 1992
.Machado de Assis
, Joaquim Maria
. Dom Casmurro: A Novel
. Translated by Caldwell
Helen
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.Machado de Assis
, Joaquim Maria
. Posthumous Memories of Brás Cubas [Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubás]
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. New York
: Oxford University Press
, 1998
.Machado de Assis
, Joaquim Maria
. The Psychiatrist and Other Stories
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2000
.Magaldi
, Cristina
. Music in Imperial Rio de Janeiro: European Culture in a Tropical Milieu
. New York
: Scarecrow Press
, 2004
.Silva
, Eduardo
. Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Color
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. “The Broken Paths of Freedom: Free Africans in Nineteenth-Century Slave Society
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Part III. Republican Rio
Azevedo
, Aluísio
. The Slum [O Cortiço]
. Translated by Rosenthal
David H.
. New York
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, 2000
.Barreto
, Alfonso Henriques de Lima
. The Sad End of Policárpo Quaresma [O Triste Fim do Policarpo Quaresma]
. Translated by Carlyon
Mark
. New York
: Penguin Classics
, 2015
.Carvalho
, Bruno
. Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro
. Liverpool
: Liverpool University Press
, 2013
.Caulfield
, Sueann
. In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2000
.Chazkel
, Amy
. Laws of Chance: Brazil’s Clandestine Lottery and the Making of Urban Public Life
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2011
.Fischer
, Brodwyn M.
A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Rio de Janeiro
. Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
, 2010
.Hahner
, June E.
Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870–1920
. Albuquerque
: University of New Mexico Press
, 1986
.Hertzman
, Marc A.
Making Samba: A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2013
.McCann
, Bryan
. Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of Modern Brazil
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2004
.Meade
, Teresa
. “Civilizing” Rio: Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City
. University Park
: Penn State University Press
, 1997
.Jeffrey
, Needell
. A Tropical Belle Époque: Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro
. New York
: Cambridge University Press
, 1987
.Portal Augusto Malta
, Arquivo Geral da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro
. Rio
, João do
. The Enchanting Soul of the Streets [A Alma Encantadora das Ruas]
. Translated by Carlyon
Mark
. Rio de Janeiro
: Cidade Viva Editora
, 2010
.Soares
, Jô
. A Samba for Sherlock [O Xangô de Baker Street]
. Translated by Landers
Clifford
. New York
: Vintage
, 1998
.Sussekind
, Flora
. Cinematograph of Words: Literature, Technique, and Modernization in Brazil
. Translated by Britto
Paulo
. Stanford, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
, 1997
.Vianna
, Hermano
. The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil
. Translated by Chasteen
John Charles
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 1999
.White
, Richard Dunning
. Sketches of Rio de Janeiro and Environs
. Exeter, England
: William Pollard and Company
, 1897
.Williams
, Daryle
. Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2001
.
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Part IV. Recent Rio
Alberto
, Paulina
. “When Rio was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil
.” Hispanic American Historical Review
89
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(February
2009
), 3
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.Arias
, Enrique Desmond
. Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security
. Chapel Hill
: University of North Carolina Press
, 2006
.Conde
, Maite
. Consuming Visions: Cinema, Writing, and Modernity in Rio de Janeiro
. Charlottesville
: University of Virginia Press
, 2012
.Evenson
, Norma
. Two Brazilian Capitals: Architecture and Urbanism in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília
. New Haven, Conn.
: Yale University Press
, 1973
.Gaffney
, Christopher Thomas
. Temples of the Earthbound Gods: Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
. Austin
: University of Texas Press
, 2009
.Garcia-Roza
, Luíz Alfredo
. Inspector Espinosa Series
. Vols. 1–7
. London
: Picador
, 2003–2010
[1996–2007
].Gay
, Robert
. Bruno: Conversations with a Brazilian Drug Dealer
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2015
.Gay
, Robert
. Lúcia: Testimonies of a Brazilian Drug Dealer’s Woman
. Philadelphia
: Temple University Press
, 2005
.Goldstein
, Donna
. Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2013
.Green
, James N.
Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century Brazil
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
, 2001
.Hanchard
, M. G.
Orpheus and Power: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, 1945–1988
. Princeton, N.J.
: Princeton University Press
, 1998
.Langland
, Victoria
. Speaking of Flowers: Student Movements and the Making and Remembering of 1968 in Military Brazil
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2014
.Lispector
, Clarice
. Hour of the Star
. Translated by Ponteiro
Giovanni
. Manchester
: Carcanet
, 1986
.Magalhães
, Rosa
. Fazendo Carnaval / The Making of Carnival
. Rio de Janeiro
: Lacerda Editores
, 1997
.McCann
, Bryan
. Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
. Durham, N.C.
: Duke University Press
, 2014
.Neate
, Patrick
, and Platt
Damian
. Culture Is Our Weapon: Making Music and Changing Lives in Rio de Janeiro
. New York
: Penguin
, 2010
.Penglase
, R. Ben
. Living with Insecurity in a Brazilian Favela: Urban Violence and Daily Life
. New Brunswick, N.J.
: Rutgers University Press
, 2014
.Perlman
, Janice
. Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio
. New York
: Oxford University Press
, 2011
.Perlman
, Janice
. The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 1976
.Rochester
, Julia
. The Candelária Massacre: How Wagner dos Santos Survived the Street Children’s Killing That Shook Brazil
. New York
: Vision
, 2008
.Silva
, Benedita da
, Benjamin
Medea
, and Mendonça
Maisa
. Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian Woman’s Story of Politics and Love
. Oakland, Calif.
: Food First Books
, 1997
.Treece
, David
. Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap
. London
: Reaktion Books
, 2013
.
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Rio de Janeiro on the Big Screen
Another Love Story [Maré, Nossa História de Amor]
. Dir. Murat
Lúcia
. Wide Management
, 2007
.City of God [Cidade de Deus]
. Dirs. Meirelles
Fernando
and Lund
Kátia
. Miramax Films
, 2002
.Four Days in September [O que É Isso, Companheiro?]
. Dir. Barreto
Bruno
. Miramax Films
, 1997
.Lucio Flavio [Lúcio Flávio, O Passageiro da Agonia]
. Dir. Babenco
Hector
. Unifilms
, 1981
.The Music according to Antonio Carlos Jobim [A Música segundo Tom Jobim]
. Dir. Pereira dos Santos
Nelson
. Sony Pictures
, 2012
.The Other Side of the Street [O Outro Lado da Rua]
. Dir. Bernstein
Marcos
. Strand Releasing
, 2006
.Rio Sex Comedy [Rio, sexe et (un peu de) tragi-comédie]
. Dir. Nossiter
Jonathan
. Océan Films
, 2011
.Rio, Zona Norte
. Dir. Pereira dos Santos
Nelson
. Lívio Bruni Produções Cinematográficos
, 1957
.Subway to the Stars [Um Trem para as Estrelas]
. Dir. Diegues
Carlos
. FilmDallas Pictures
, 1987
.Waste Land [Lixo Extraordinário]
. Dirs. Walker
Lucy
, Jardim
João
, and Harley
Karen
. Arthouse Films
, 2010
.The Xango from Baker Street [O Xangô de Baker Street]
. Dir. Farias
Miguel
Jr. Columbia TriStar
, 2001
.