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A Tropical Belle Epoque - Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
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A Tropical Belle Epoque - Elite Culture and Society in Turn-of-the-Century Rio de Janeiro (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Latin American Studies
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This book, originally published in 1987, is a socio-cultural
analysis of a tropical belle epoque: Rio de Janeiro between 1898
and 1914. It relates how the city's elite evolved from the
semi-rural, slave-owning patriarchy of the coffee-port seat of a
monarchy into an urbane, professional, rentier upper crust
dominating the centre of a 'modernising' oligarchical republic. It
explores such varied topics as architecture, literature,
prostitution, urban reform, the family, secondary schools, and the
salon. It evokes a milieu increasingly marked by Europe,
demonstrating how French and English culture permeated the lives of
elite members who adapted it to their needs and perspectives as a
dominant stratum of relatively recent and varied origin. This
exploration of cultural 'dependency' in a unique, cosmopolitan,
fin-de-siecle urban culture will also interest those concerned with
the broader questions of culture and colonialism during the high
tide of European imperialism.
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