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Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century São Paulo, Brazil: Crafting Modernity

✍ Scribed by Cristina Peixoto-Mehrtens (auth.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2010
Tongue
English
Leaves
279
Category
Library
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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Public and Private: Crossed Paths in the Paulista Process of Urban Consolidation....Pages 13-39
The Dynamics of Paulista Urban Institutions in the 1930s....Pages 41-81
The Making of Urban Middle-Class Employees in the 1930s....Pages 83-109
The Symbolic Construction of a Paulista Urban Identity....Pages 111-138
Politics and Urban Change: Building the Pacaembu Stadium....Pages 139-162
Conclusion....Pages 163-171
Back Matter....Pages 173-273

✦ Subjects

History of the Americas; Latin American Culture; International Relations; Political Science; Political Economy; Political History

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