Hard times in the marvelous city : from dictatorship to democracy in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro /

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This history explains how and why the favelas of Rio de Janeiro were able to resist demolition in the 1970s but succumbed to the drug wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Subjects:
1900 - 1999
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Poor > Political activity > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Pauvres > Activité politique > Brésil > Rio de Janeiro.
71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Poor > Political activity
Slums
Social conditions
Slum
Soziale Situation
Politische Mobilisierung
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brésil)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The big picture
  • Mobilization
  • Reform
  • The breaking point
  • The unraveling.

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