Companhia Docas De Santos

Company Towns in the Americas

• Author(s): Oliver J. Dinius, Angela Vergara

• Categories: Political Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2011-01-01
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• Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Company towns were the spatial manifestation of a social ideology and an economic rationale. The contributors to this volume show how national politics, social protest, and local culture transformed those founding ideologies by examining the histories of company towns in six countries: Argentina (Firmat), Brazil (Volta Redonda, Santos, Fordlândia), Canada (Sudbury), Chile (El Salvador), Mexico (Santa Rosa, Río Blanco), and the United States (Anaconda, Kellogg, and Sunflower City). Company towns across the Americas played similar economic and social roles. They advanced the frontiers of industrial capitalism and became powerful symbols of modernity. They expanded national economies by suppo...

Special Agents Series

• Categories: Commerce

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1918
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Miscellaneous Series ...

• Author(s): United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce

• Categories: Consular reports

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1914
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Fiscal Year-end Report - Export-Import Bank of the United States

• Author(s): Export-Import Bank of the United States

• Categories: Export credit

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1956
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• Publisher: Unknown

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From Sea-bathing to Beach-going

• Author(s): Bert Jude Barickman

• Categories: Bathing beaches

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2022
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• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.