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Social Segmentation and Clientelism in the Extreme West
This volume explores problems related to processes of importation and adaptation of Western cultural and institutional models and their effects on social structures. Among these problems, those related to the permanence of reciprocity ties in official institutions and their correlates, such as clientelism and corruption, stand out. The book will appeal to social scientists concerned with analytical problems and theoretical advances in relation to the issues at hand, as well as the wider public concerned with the trends and results of the importation of Western models in the processes of transforming social structures, especially in “extra-Western” societies.
House and Street
During the later half of the nineteenth century, a majority of Brazilian women worked, most as domestic servants, either slave or free. House and Street re-creates the working and personal lives of these women, drawing on a wealth of documentation from archival, court, and church records. Lauderdale Graham traces the intricate and ambivalent relations that existed between masters and servants. She shows how for servants the house could be a place of protection—as well as oppression—while the street could be dangerous—but also more autonomous. She integrates her discoveries with larger events taking place in Rio de Janeiro during the period, including the epidemics of the 1850s, the abolition of slavery, the demolition of slums, and major improvements in sanitation during the first decade of the 1900s. House and Street was originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1988. For this paperback edition, Lauderdale Graham has provided a new introduction.
The Medical Age
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Patronage and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Focusing on the period from 1840 to 1889, one of the leading historians on Brazil explores the specific ways in which granting protection, official positions, and other favors in exchange for political and personal loyalty worked to benefit the interests of wealthy Brazilians.
O hospício da praia vermelha
Os pesquisadores Ana Teresa Venancio e Allister Dias se cercaram de um grupo seleto e muito rico de especialistas para levar a cabo um de esses trabalhos específicos e concretos. Esta história do Hospital Nacional de Alienados (anteriormente Hospício de Pedro II), assim como trabalhos prévios de alguns dos autores participantes, situa-se em uma linha de investigação com repercussão internacional. Como os próprios coordenadores do livro indicam, a emblemática instituição brasileira já tem sido objeto de numerosos estudos, mas, neste caso, as contribuições tanto metodológicas como de conteúdo fazem deste livro coletivo um produto novo e original.
Dicionário escolar afro-brasileiro
A obra oferece ao leitor, em linguagem acessível, informações sobre o universo dos afrodescendentes no Brasil. Além de abordar temas como escravidão, racismo e desigualdade social, o livro apresenta biografias de personalidades negras que se destacaram e se destacam na política, nas artes plásticas, na religião, na música, nos esportes, no ensino e em muitas outras esferas da vida cotidiana brasileira. Edição revista e atualizada.
