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
Main Author: McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Politische Mobilisierung
Soziale Situation
Slum
Social conditions.
Slums.
Poor > Political activity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
71.60 social problems and social conflicts: general.
Pauvres > Activite politique > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro.
Poor > Political activity > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (261 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9780822377344

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