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- Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary cultural history to one of the most important cities in Latin America
- Based on extensive primary source material and includes close-reading analysis of multiple texts
- Frames the cultural development of twentieth century Rio de Janeiro in context of the city's present state as a world class host city for sports
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book studies architecture and literature of Rio de Janeiro, the “Marvellous City,” from the revolution of 1889 to the Olympics of 2016, taking the reader on a journey through the history of the city. This study offers a wide-ranging and thought-provoking insight that moves from ruins to Modernism, from the past to the future, from futebol to fiction, and from beach to favela, to uncover the surprising feature—decadence—at the heart of this unique and seemingly timeless urban world. An innovative and in-depth study of buildings, books, and characters in the city’s modern history, this fundamental new work sets the reader in the glorious world of Rio de Janeiro.
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Authors and Affiliations
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Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Tom Winterbottom
About the author
Tom Winterbottom is a writer based in San Francisco, USA. He received his doctorate from Stanford University, USA in 2015 and has travelled frequently to Latin America since 2002.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro after 1889
Book Subtitle: Glorious Decadence
Authors: Tom Winterbottom
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31201-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-31200-2Published: 09 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80989-2Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31201-9Published: 30 August 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 224
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of the Americas, Cultural History, Urban History, Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics