...Newcomb College Uma universidade no Rio de Janeiro . Vol I: Gontribuição às comemorações do IV Centenário da cidade, 1500-1889 . By Lobo Francisco Bruno . Rio de Janeiro , 1967 . Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . Pp. 441 . O ensino da medicina no Rio de Janeiro . 2...

...Mary Ann Mahony Reading Rio de Janeiro: Literature and Society in the Nineteenth Century . By Zephyr Frank . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2016 . Maps. Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv, 229 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Roderick J. Barman Copyright 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Nas trincheiras da cura: As diferentes medicinas no Rio de Janeiro Imperial . By Sampaio Gabriel Dos Reis . Coleção Várias Históras , vol. 12 . Campinas, Brazil : UNICAMP , 2001 . Notes. Bibligraphy . 163 pp...

...Maria Cecília Velasco e Cruz © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Translated by Sabrina Gledhill. It was August 19, 1906, a Sunday. Despite a sluggish coffee market and low prices, 11,623 sacks of beans entered Rio de Janeiro that day. At the Chacrinha, the city’s coffee exchange...

...Thomas Fischer Die Brahma-Brauerei und die Modernisierung des Getränkehandels in Rio de Janeiro 1888 bis 1930 . By Köb Edgar Helmut . Beiträge zur Kolonial-und Überseegeschichte , vol. 20 Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag , 2005 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Notes. Bibliography...

...Brad Lange Immigration and Xenophobia: Portuguese Immigrants in Early 19th Century Rio de Janeiro . By Barbosa Rosana . Lanham, MD : University Press of America , 2008 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . ix , 135 pp. Paper , $28.00 . Copyright 2010 by Duke University...

... of the hospício and who played an important role in the modernization of Rio de Janeiro psychiatry: João Carlos Teixeira Brandão (the first psychiatrist to serve as the hospício's administrative director) and Juliano Moreira. The descendant of African slaves, Moreira overcame the social limits imposed by his...

...Maxine L. Margolis Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro . By Pino Julio César . Contributions in Latin American Studies, no. 10 . Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press , 1997 . Maps. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . x , 199 pp. Cloth, $55.00...

...Thomas H. Holloway Tropical Versailles: Empire, Monarchy, and the Portuguese Royal Court in Rio de Janeiro, 1808–1821 . By Schultz Kirsten . New World in the Atlantic World . New York : Routledge , 2001 . Illustrations. Map. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 325 pp...

... between state and society in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, provides insights into Brazilian political culture far beyond the specific subject matter. The title comes from a contemporary observation that the people of Rio were passive observers of the fall of the empire, “bestialized...

...Sheldon Leslie Maram House and Street: The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro . By Graham Sandra Lauderdale . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1988 . Plates. Notes. Tables. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xii , 212 . Cloth...

...Thomas H. Holloway * The author thanks the Brazilian Fulbright Commission and the Cornell Latin American Studies Program for financial support. An abbreviated version of some of this material appeared in Estudos Afro-Asiáticos (Rio de Janeiro), 16 (Mar. 1989). I thank Carlos Hasenbalg...

...Jeffrey D. Needell Slave Life in Rio de Janeiro 1808-1850 . By Karasch Mary C. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1987 . Maps. Illustrations. Notes. Tables. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxv , 422 . Cloth . $85.00 . Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press...

... staged what Manchete magazine called “the greatest spectacle of faith ever seen in Brazil.” 1 Held in Rio de Janeiro to venerate Christ and inspire participation in Holy Communion, the 36th International Eucharistic Congress (IEC) drew more than a million people. The government built a large plaza...

...Eugene Ridings A Tropical Belle Époque: The Elite Culture of Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro . By Needell Jeffrey D. . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1987 . Maps. Photographs. Figures. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xviii , 351 . Cloth . $45.00...

...Sandra Lauderdale Graham Trabalho, lar e botequim. O cotidiano dos trabalhadores no Rio de Janeiro da belle époque . By Chalhoub Sidney . São Paulo : Editora Brasiliense , 1986 . Photographs. Notes . Pp. 249 . Paper. Copyright 1988 by Duke University Press 1988...

... by the British navy, fled Napoleon’s armies and escaped to Rio de Janeiro, the city went from being a colonial capital to being the seat of a far-flung empire. Brazilian ports, previously allowed to trade only through Portugal, were opened to direct trade with other countries. The first press was established...

...Roderick J. Barman Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: A Tale of Two Favelas . By Gay Robert . Philadelphia : Temple University Press , 1994 . Photographs. Maps. Tables. Appendix. Bibliography. Index . 191 pp. Cloth , $44.95 . Paper , $17.95 . Copyright...

...Elizabeth Kuznesof Conceiving Freedom: Women of Color, Gender, and the Abolition of Slavery in Havana and Rio de Janeiro . By Cowling Camillia . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2013 . Photograph. Maps. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiii, 326 pp. Paper...

...Maria Lais Pereira da Silva Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro . By McCann Bryan . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2014 . Photographs. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 249 pp. Paper , $24.95 . Copyright ©...